Re: [Marxism] Greens to be on Ohio State Ballot

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin G.:
> My strong sense is that dissenting Democrats like Cindy Sheehan and Cynthia
> McKinney don't have a sectarian view of the Greens as "vote splitters" and
> feel much closer politically to them than to the DP leadership.

These are not the typical "dissenting" Democrats. In NYC, you have liberal
Democratic Party clubs. An old friend of mine, who was in the Revolutionary
Union in the 70s (Avakian's group that later became the RCP) was active in
the Upper West Side Democrats but dropped out in disgust about 10 years ago
and became a GP member. The social base of the DP in NYC consists of
schoolteachers, union functionaries, social workers, retail shop owners,
doctors, etc. They *do* have a sectarian view of the Greens and wish that
they would go away. These people will only be persuaded to join the Greens
if it becomes a powerful force but they have Trojan horse in the GP that is
doing everything it can to keep the GP impotent (Ted Glick, Medea Benjamin,
et al.)




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