[Marxism] RE Is this election a great moral choosing of sides? Frankly, no.

[Ilyenkova@xxxxxxx]

Fred Feldman writes:
>The idea that a vote for either of the imperialist candidates is a vote
for war -- and I do mean EITHER -- is a complete misunderstanding of the
way bourgeois politics operates in this country  and of the basic
characteristics of imperialist democracy..It is electoralism, not class
struggle politics.  It is moralism, not Marxism. <

Fred you're too good a journalist for this kind of transparently disingenuous 
twaddle. Only the most blockheaded literalist could translate 'a vote for the 
either candidate of the two capitalist parties is a vote for war' to mean 
that those who pull the lever for Bush or Kerry are saying "I vote for war." 
Both 
Bush and Kerry have made it clear that they intend to continue the war. The 
only difference being that Kerry is more honest about the forces necessary to 
'win it' (why am I bothering to write this?). Obviously, many, if not the 
majority of Kerry voters are sour on the war. But their candidate, his party 
and 
its corporate backers and insiders have made it crystal clear what they intend 
to do. The fact that we're disappointed and disgusted with the celebrity 
leftists for Kerry in no way means that we don't intend to work with them after 
the 
election. Or, that we identify these bulbous touts with the millions of rank 
and file voters who are against the war! That was one of the main messages of 
both Peter Camejo and Shawki at the recent ISO educational. 
Ilyenkova


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