RE: [Marxism] the always correct Ted Glick

["Mark Lause" <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The fate of the Greens is still up in the air.  Imho, the party was so
entirely disorganized outside of a few locations in New York and
California, that a well-organized Cobb blitz was able to end-run the
will of the vast majority of those who regard themselves as Greens.

Frankly, I was a bit irritated when Nader declared himself a candidate
on his own...two reasons, basically.  I think the idea of starting
presidential campaigns earlier every cycle is part of making politics
the exclusive terrain of corporations, and, most immediately, I wanted
him to use the campaign to build the Greens as a permanent third party.
The closer I've looked at the Greens, the more I tend to think the Cobb
nomination was unavoidable.

Most of the parties have lots of people who identify with them, but, as
organizations, they are extremely tiny and often existed only on paper.
The Cincinnati Greens, for example, have only ever had a few names
associated with the party and they've never returned a phone call or
email from me or many people I've referred to them over the years.

If those who actually want a third party can get it together, the Greens
might be "reorganized"--actually organized in the first place--in such a
way as to prevent the repeat of such a fiasco....but we'll see.

Solidarity!
Mark L.



"All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the
treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a
Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio
or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. ... If
destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher."
     ---- Abraham Lincoln, January 27, 1838


-----Original Message-----
From: marxism-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:marxism-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yosef M
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:23 PM
To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
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Subject: Re: [Marxism] the always correct Ted Glick

If I remember the figures from Counterpunch correctly,
the Greens lost 14 of their 29 state ballot lines,
thanks to Cobb the "vote suppressor." The Green Party
presidential vote plunged from 2.8 million in 2000 to
135,000 last year. I suspect the future of the Green
Party is to be another American Labor Party/Working
Families Party, with its own candidates for lesser
offices and a Democrat at the top of the ticket.

Break with the Democrats, build a revolutionary
workers party!

Regards,
Yosef M

--- Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There's an interminable article by Ted Glick on znet
> today that tries to
> draw the lessons of the Cobb-Lamarche campaign:
>



                
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