Re: [Marxism] Camejo to speak at CCNY

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Mike says:
> This might sound pretty simple but what exactly are we arguing about
> here? Nader and Camejo are for capitalism. We are against it. Just
> because Camejo WAS  a marxist at one point doesn't mean anything.
> What if David Horrowitz ran for president, would we be discussing
> his work when he was a marxist or exposing him for what he really
> is? Don't get me wrong, I think all the reformist stuff Camejo was
> doing in the 60's 70's whenever is really great but from a
> principaled standpoint it's clear that the Nader/Camejo ticket is
> not working or claiming to represent the interests of the working
> class first and foremost and furthermore are not espousing anything
> even semi-revolutionary. Nader/Camejo are presenting a
> counterposition to the two party system? Big deal. So are alot of
> other little third parties out there, including the SWP, Socialist
> Equality Party why aren't we debating about their presidential
> campaigns?

Because the socialist sects' rhetoric -- even when their analysis is
sound -- prevents them from building a broad foundation for a mass
political party of *millions* of workers and our allies.  The
platform of the Nader/Camejo campaign
<http://votenader.org/issues/index_home.php> more or less coincides
with the demands of the Million Worker March
<http://www.millionworkermarch.org/article.php?id=28#dem>.  That's
the right set of demands at this point in the United States.  If
socialists can't get *millions* of workers and our allies *actively
involved* in a campaign for the sort of demands advanced by
Nader/Camejo and the Million Worker March, it is obvious we can't win
them to socialism either.

BTW, I'd at least take a second look at socialist sects if they
manage to abandon the futile idea of each sect promoting its own
ticket in *competition* with others and if all socialist sects (the
SWP, the SEP, the WW, etc.) unite to present a united socialist
ticket or something like that, but I doubt that they will.

Socialists need to develop the spirit of productive cooperation,
rather than pointless competition.
--
Yoshie

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