[Marxism] Re: Getting Out Every Vote

[Douglas MacDonald <dmacdonald94591@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Julio-

Interestingly, Marx wrote on Communist (ie: Marxist) strategy for dealing with 
the "D"emocrats in his address to the Communist League circa 1852:

"At the moment, while the democratic petty bourgeois are everywhere oppressed, 
they preach to the proletariat general unity and reconciliation; they extend 
the hand of friendship, and seek to found a great opposition party which will 
embrace all shades of democratic opinion; that is, they seek to ensnare the 
workers in a party organization in which general social-democratic phrases 
prevail while their particular interests are kept hidden behind, and in which, 
for the sake of preserving the peace, the specific demands of the proletariat 
may not be presented. Such a unity would be to their advantage alone and to the 
complete disadvantage of the proletariat. The proletariat would lose all its 
hard-won independent position and be reduced once more to a mere appendage of 
official bourgeois democracy."

"This unity must therefore be resisted in the most decisive manner. Instead of 
lowering themselves to the level of an applauding chorus, the workers, and 
above all the League, must work for the creation of an independent organization 
of the workers' party, both secret and open, and alongside the official 
democrats, and the League must aim to make every one of its communes a center 
and nucleus of workers' associations in which the position and interests of the 
proletariat can be discussed free from bourgeois influence."

Keery or Bush makes no difference.  In fact, Kerry is far more dangerous 
Marxist organizing by his and the Democrats deluding the public into beleiving 
they offer the working class a better "deal".  The only deal they offer is the 
usurpation of time, effort and money from the masses of struggling activists 
that would be far more fruitfully used in developing political independence 
from the ruling class.

-Douglas MacDonald
Community-Labor Alliance

                
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