Re: [Marxism] GP entrails [In defense of Harrington and American Menshevism]

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bhaskar wrote:
>Consider this.  The Republican party continues to lurch to the 
>populist right of Sarah Palin and Huckabee.  The Democratic Party 
>maintains its legislative majority, but it has its divisions 
>within.  The Democratic Party maybe a "ruling class" party, but 
>there are different interests within it.

Of course there are different interests in it. If it did not have a 
left wing, it would lose its appeal entirely. That is the function of 
a Dennis Kucinich, to serve as the shill in a 3 card political monte game.

>  Evan Bayh is currently forming a senate version of the 
> right-of-center "Blue Dogs" there are still centrist "New 
> Democrats" within the party, but there is a also a progressive 
> Congressional Progressive Caucus, some of whoms members have 
> operative social democratic politics.  There will bit of infighting 
> within both parties and the economic crisis can any compound 
> things. A strengthening of progressive forces and friction within 
> both parties could lead to a division of both parties on ideological lines.

Well, the CPUSA and the SP have been banking on such income since the 
1930s. They have also committed personnel to making it happen. If it 
hasn't happened by now, it is time to reevaluate the policy. Of 
course, leftist politics tends to take on dogmatic characteristics 
that prevent self-correction from taking place.

>It may seem Utopian, but it wasn't too long ago that Dixiecrats 
>reigned indisputably in the south.  It's more likely than the Green 
>Party coming to any sort of prominence.  It's not like the Green 
>Party is even very receptive to socialists.

The Dixiecrats no longer reign supreme because people gave their 
lives in struggle. With respect to the Greens, I would not harp on 
them right now since they are about as much as an alternative to the 
DP as the Working Families Party is. 


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