Re: [Marxism] The campaign and the debate around Obama

["Mark Lause" <markalause@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Gandall writes:
>
> it would certainly move the discussion forward if Mark
> and others, rather than merely deriding US radicals who are trying to
> organize frustrated Democrats
>

There's no easy answers, but a strating pointing is not to simply
throw up our hands and become unorganized "frustrated Democrats"
ourselves.

There are serious breeches opening up in the two-party facade, more
than any other time in my lifetime.  The 2000 election showed the
potential...Nader did better than any independent progressive since
Henry Wallace.  The other night, Jesse Ventura pointed out to the
"Open the Debates" rally in the Twin Cities that he was an independent
excluded form the debates up to a certain point and, once he was
included, there was a big rush of voters that gravitated towards him
in preference to the two party options. Independents are excluded form
the debate for a reason, after all, and now more than ever.

Which is, of course, the flip side to the consequences of going
Democratic.  If we do that, we accept the top-down restriction of the
alternatives we get and add to the cynical anti-democratic chorus
denouncing the "spoilers."   IAre our stomaches strong enough.

Best,
Mark

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