Re: [Marxism] The right modal verb (re: Lula & polls)

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a note to say that I appreciate Nestor's comments and those
of Carlos Rebello. Here's an excerpt from the last issue of Against
the Current which concludes on a similar note as well:


Walter Lippmann
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The Workers' Party and Political Crisis in Brazil: Lula at a Crossroads?
â?? Gianpaolo Baiocchi

http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/105

In 2005, the party turned out over 300,000 members to vote in
internal direct elections, and those elections shifted internal
politics to the left. The â??socialist refoundationâ?? platform did not
carry the day, but one of its authors, former Porto Alegre Mayor and
leader of the largest Trotskyist tendency within the PT, Socialist
Democracy, became its secretary-general.

The party may decide to go with the people in the end. But going with
the people should mean more than an income redistribution program â??
it should also mean following up on land reform, adopting a different
political economy, and most of all, opening up the state for real,
popular input, as the Workersâ?? Party taught the world was possible.

Social movement activists also find themselves in a curious position
â?? they know they are better off under a national PT administration
than under other parties, but much of their experience these last
three years has been disappointing. Just as activists within the PT
had the imagination to create a party that did not dominate social
movements, they are now faced with the task of imagining a double
game of supporting the administration against more conservative
forces, while actively opposing some of its policies until real space
is opened in the national administration.




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