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

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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"?

^^^
CB: Yes, Sartesian is essentially saying that ( go to be debilitated) ,
but when we look at some historical facts it isn't an accurate
generalization for the main social movements - women's suffrage, 
unionization of industrial labor,  Civil Rights/anti-Jim Crow, Vietnam
peace, modern women's lib .  _None_ of them died in the Democratic
Party. They all achieved significantly their historical goals.  And in
the case of the Civil Rights Movement it can be said that the Democratic
Party sacrificed itself in a big sense in that the successful Republican
Southern Strategy of the last 40 years is based on the Democratic Party
support and actualization of the Civil Rights Movement, the complete
opposite of this "old saying". 

^^^^

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Christopher Hutchinson





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