RE: [Marxism] Re: French Elections

["Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote that the French Left blew it, it should have maintained the unity
achieved in the fight around the EU constitution in this election, and Luko
replied "in what would such a challenge exist? 'Anybody but Le Pen'?"

My meaning should have been clear, but since the sect-builders and camp
followers on this list seem not to have gotten it, let me put it as simply
as I can.

The sect left has failed. It is not part of the solution, it is part of the
problem. Groups like the LCR, LO, CP, etc., are not contributions to the
constitution of a real party of working people, they are an *obstacle.* The
counterposition of these political sect apparatuses to the social and
protest movements and each other is the MAIN content of their campaigns. You
cannot BOTH denounce others for having sabotaged efforts at creating a
campaign that would represent another step towards a political movement that
articulates the social movements, and at the same time aggressively project
your own sect candidate to wage the fight for market share against the other
sects.

What this has to do with "anybody but LePen" I can't pretend to understand.

What it has to do with is NOT voting for the postman or any other of the
sect candidates on some phony "better program" basis. Their "program" in
PRACTICE, ON THE GROUND, was to undercut the motion and sentiment that
existed towards constituting a political pole of the working people and
social movements. They have placed their narrow sect interests before and
above the interests of the movement as a whole. They are a curse. They
should disperse.

And I guess if I were in France I'd have voted for Bove as a way of
registering a protest against the sects. He was --according to everything
I've heard-- the overwhelming, practically the only possible choice for a
presidential candidate of a united left.

Joaquin



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