Re: [Marxism] Camejo to speak at CCNY

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Feldman wrote:
> So are we fighting for the progressive capitalists right to a fair
> share of this corporate money? Are we fighting to let Nader/Camejo
> into this closed circle and expect them to continue their
> bleeding-heart rhetoric after filling their coffers?

But there is no evidence that Nader and Camejo want to be whores for the 
Fortune 500 companies. Nader is over 70 and Camejo is 65 or so. At this 
stage of the game, it would seem that they are a little long in the 
tooth to start out new careers as bourgeois politicians. The viciousness 
of the attacks on their campaign is virtually unprecedented in American 
politics. You have to go back to the Henry Wallace campaign to see this 
level of vituperation. If anything, Nader has cut himself off from 
wealthy donors who have funded Public Citizen in the past. The Ben and 
Jerrys of the world have pretty much the same attitude toward him that 
they do toward Milosevic or Ramsey Clark. Here's a reminder from the 
Village Voice, a virtual symbol of progressive capitalism:

How the Great Crusader used the Green Party to get his revenge
Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber
by Harry G. Levine
May 3rd, 2004 1:20 PM

On Friday, October 13, 2000, at Madison Square Garden, the largest of 
Ralph Nader's "super rallies" kicked his campaign into high gear. It was 
a great event in many ways. Fifteen thousand ticket buyers cheered 
songs, jokes, skits, and pep talks delivering timeless radical truths 
about wealth and power in America. Nader's speech was actually the low 
point, circulating randomly through riffs about corporate power, health 
insurance, the environment, and what Ralph Nader had accomplished.

But Nader also served up disturbing untruths. Most notable was his 
insistence that Al Gore and George W. Bush were "Tweedledee and 
Tweedledum"—they look and act the same, so it doesn't matter which you 
get. I went home angry. But it took me a while to understand that my 
progressive hero had turned suicide bomber—that Ralph Nader had strapped 
political dynamite onto himself and walked into one of the closest 
elections in American history hoping to blow it up.

full: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0418/levine.php


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