[Marxism] A letter to a Marxmail subscriber

["Sky Keyes-Vogt" <skeyesvogt@xxxxxxxxx>]

*CB: what about the rut in thinking which dogmatically finds , ohh, low and
behold the Democratic Party is  bad, bad , bad , a grave yard for social
movements ? What  an  inaccurate conclusion from actual US history of the
last 75 years.*

My understanding of the slogan "the Dem Party is a graveyard for social
movements" is that it refers to the fact that Dems try to steer the masses
away from mass action in the streets to electoral voting booth strategies,
i.e. that they COUNTERPOSE voting against mass action.  Thus, they help kill
mass social movements by spouting the lie that the voting booth is the only
place where change happens.

Do others have a different perspective regarding what this slogan implies?
It seemed pretty clear to me that the Dem party doesn't sustain and grow
social movements, it co-opts them and neutralizes them so that they don't
pose a fundemental threat to the system.

Without intending to be sectarian in any way, I must ask: is the view held
by CB about the Dems common among Marxists?  and would CB's view of the Dems
be considered to be close to the view held by the American CP, i.e. serve to
justify support for the Dem candidate in president elections?

In Solidarity,

Sky Keyes
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