RE: [Marxism] Do we look to the working class...

[paul bunyan <cutemdown2003@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Mark wrote:


>persuaded that Bush was "evil" enough to abandon their principles and vote
>for Kerry. And personally, I believe that 4 of those 5 reached that decision
>on their own, without the pressures of Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, >Norman 
>Solomon, et al. Were all those people simply imagining something >about the 
>nature of the Bush administration? Or is there a "there" there?

I've said this before, but it needs saying again. There is a difference between 
Democratic party politicians and those who vote for the Dems. People who 
supported Kerry, who did so out of fear of Bush (yes, he is scary), are for the 
most part decent people (no apologies for those of you who hate subjectivism) 
who want some of the same things those of us on this list want....a society 
where no one is involuntarily homeless or unemployed, without health care, and 
no ones rights are abridged because of race, gender, or sexual preferences. 
Yes, trusting the Dems is a self defeating illusion, that has to be broken 
with. We argue with these people differently than with those who get a perverse 
pleasure out of human sufferring (conservatives). The people who supported 
Kerry, however reluctantly, are the same people who those of us of the 
revolutionary left are going to need as allies in the upcoming battles ahead. 
Some will see the need to adopt a revolutionary perspective, others won't.

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