Re: The US Left Now, Part [4] by Julio Huato

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Julio Huato:
> I said, "finding common ground with the liberals may be the cost of
> becoming relevant."  I stand by that.  Yes, right now that means "propping
> up the sagging Democratic machine" as it shifts to the right.  But, in my
> opinion, what makes the Democratic party move to the right is not the left's
> electoral support.  It is the weakness of the left that allows the
> Democratic party to shift to the right.  Or, to look at the other side of
> the coin, it is the strength of the right in the US at the grassroots level,
> assissted by an electoral, constitutional arrangement that discriminates
> against states where the work of the left is likely to be more fruitful.

Propping up the sagging Democratic machine? Amazing, simply amazing. What a
rascal Julio is, who can quote the Grundrisse in one breath and sound like
Nathan Newman in the next. (Nathan Newman, who is an ubiquitous figure on
leftwing email lists, is always urging the left to back the Democratic Party.)


Louis Proyect
www.marxmail.org


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