Re: [Marxism] An analysis of the DP convention that works better

["Christopher Hutchinson" <christopher.hutch@xxxxxxxxx>]

One think that the link to the comic below points out is that FDR, a
Democrat, was the first president since Grover Cleveland in the Pullman
Strike to use the military to break a strike.  All gains made by working
people have been won outside of the DP...I don't know if I've followed this
thread closely enough but has anyone mentioned the old say, "The Democratic
Party in the place where social movements go to die"?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vx_Yf3S3yJ8/SLMdeE25ztI/AAAAAAAAAFU/KVSIjLiSe64/s1600-h/General-Strike-%236asendoutth.gif


Christopher Hutchinson

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Mark Lause <markalause@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes, Charles, let's test that.
>
> In each and every case you mention--woman suffrage, civil rights and
> the anti-Vietnam War movement--the impetus to change came from people
> functioning independent of the electoral parties.  As the movements
> grew stronger, they forced officeholders to make concessions.
>
> As an aside, it was the Democratic Party that provided the greater
> obstacle to woman suffrage in the heyday of the movement.  And the
> Democratic Party was responsible for needing civil rights legislation
> in the first place, since it was the party that established and
> tightened segregationist standards as late as the 1950s.  And the
> Democratic Party started and escalated the Vietnam War.
>
>  We're not discussing ancient history here.  Have we forgotten?
>
> ML
>
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