[Marxism] Doing Elections

["Pance Stojkovski" <pance@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Doing Elections 

Written by Bill Fletcher, Jr.    

Sunday, 13 April 2008 

Some recent controversy in connection with the statement on the US
Presidential elections by Jamala Rogers posted on the FRSO website, along
with a odd exchange that accompanied a piece that I wrote at The Black
Commentator on the now-halted John Edwards campaign, caused me to reflect
some more on the radical Left and elections. Is there a point for the
radical Left to be thinking in terms of participating in elections, be they
national or local? If so, in what capacity? 

Contrary to those, such as the Greens, who suggest an immediate third-party
run for national (and local) office, I believe that the actual conditions
plus the nature of the electoral system do not justify it. To borrow from
the remarks offered by long-time writer and activist Frances Fox Piven at
the recent Left Forum in New York City, there are those who wish to engage
in an electoral politics that does not exist in the USA and wish to avoid
the electoral politics that does. 

Complete article:

http://freedomroad.org/content/view/510/1/lang,en/




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