Re: [Marxism] Cockburn on the elections

["Charlie Parks" <jcparks5550@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have to say, Cockburn's implicit position on the Dems and gay marriage
marks the same kind of ideological retreat he accuses the Dems of
perpetrating; he mockingly (and correctly) suggests that they will claim
that the outcome of this election demonstrates the need to move further to
right on economic and foreign policy, only to suggest that they ought to do
so on the issue of gay marriage. It's one thing for him to jokingly argue
that the gay movement for marriage rights is a "sidestep on freedom's
path"(i.e.why should they fight for the ol' ball and chain?) as he did in
one of his Nation columns, quite another to blame the Dems' association with
gay marriage (quite undeserved since so many prominent Democrats remain as
reactionary as the Republicans on the matter) for their election debacle.
--CP



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