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

[Dayne Goodwin <dayneg@xxxxxxxx>]

Who-lio?, What-o?
        I don't have time to read all marxmail messages and there are
periods of time that i don't read any.  The last i remember it was
understood that Julio was a pseudonym (thus my Who-lio?) and had declined
to provide any info about occupation, etc. (What-o?).
        This latest message clarifies that Who-lio has the reformist
politics of a typical petit-bourgeois CP member, maybe a government
bureaucrat who didn't lose his job with the executive branch turnover from
the PRI to Fox/PAN, probably engaged in:

Who-lio:
"In part, this requires that the left gets in tune with local issues and
builds leadership at that level.  Most of the work at the local level is
administrative - managing local public resources constructively and dealing
with private interests effectively, handling problems for which there are
very few ready-made solutions.  Indeed, very unappealing tasks to leftists,
particularly those who are more drawn to grand moralizing and universal
ideas.  Usually, the left emphasizes the dangers of this type of political
participation, as it risks bureaucratization and outright corruption.  But
this kind of tedious, constructive, creative, nitty-gritty, and - yes -
risky work is indispensable to establish credibility as a political force.
It is a necessary school for the left.  Nobody can fault the US people for
withholding their trust in conducting their nation's affairs to people who
have seldom proved their effectiveness even at the local level."

or maybe Who-lio's in private sector, one of those 'good' capitalists, or
well-paid by one for doing business in NYC.  In any event, Who-lio's
attachment to CP seems evident in reference to "methods that worked in the
1930s" but Who-lio is a bit confused.
        The method of allying with the 'good' capitalists which he
advocates now was exactly the method of the CP in the 1930s.  But that
method didn't work, except for the capitalists; it tied radicalizing and
militant workers to the 'good' capitalists' Democratic Party and more
fundamentally to the capitalists' two-party system for administering
capitalist society and maintaining the oppression of the working class.

Who-lio:
"Naturally, in the face of these realities, if the left remains attached
to the methods that worked in the 1930s, it sets itself to fail."

Dayne Goodwin


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