Re: [Marxism] Short answer re: electoral cretinism, etc.

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:58:57 +0200 (MES), Lüko Willms wrote:

> I would prefer to have our[1] own revolutionary candidates

  oops, I forgot to supply the footnote [1]: well, I am not part of any 
party organisation since none of the existing ones is appealing to my 
outlook, and not being much of an organiser and people-gatherer myself, 
dont try to start one myself. If I were in France, I would probably join 
the LCR, whose recent election campaign has impressed my very 
positively, with their militant and defiant attitude - "our lives are 
worth more than their profits". Despite their confusion about the Cuban 
revolution or the democratic right of women to wear a headscarf if they 
chose to. 

  I also forgot the add the example of how the Green party acted when 
they were first elected into a regional parliament, the one of Hessen 
were they came into the position to tip the scales between the SPD 
plurality and the bourgeois minorities. The Green parliamentary group 
refused to give their vote for the SPD candidate for prime minister (who 
is to be elected by the parliament) -- he then took office as head of a 
minority government, based on the SPD plurality. But when time came to 
give him the money for the politics the Greens claimed to refuse, they 
all voted for his budget. The opposite is revolutionary politics: put 
the reformists in power when we are too weak to take it, but support 
their politics only to the extent they are in the interests of working 
people. 


Cheers,
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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visit http://www.mlwerke.de Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotzki in German

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