Re: [Marxism] Supporting Obama should not lead to expulsion

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In a message dated 1/25/2009 1:13:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
_markalause@xxxxxxxxxx (mailto:markalause@xxxxxxxxx)  writes: 
 
>> And it's increasingly evident that the list includes some genuine  
supporters of Obama, so I have to ask the obvious question about the merits of  
email 
discussions in dissuading them.  I tried several times in the course  of the 
campaign to coax the many Obama supporters on the list to have that  
discussion, but very few decided to have it.  Some of us made what I  thought 
were 
unanswerably good arguments about not voting Democratic.  But  they didn't even 
persuade members of the Marxism List.<<
 
Comment 
 
I voted for Obama, as did all of my neighbors, children, their friends and  
their friends friend. The two reasons for voting for Obama are 1). Voting  for 
him made sense;  2). being on the right side of history. This means I  possess 
a concept of "side." There is no "proletarian side" or "revolutionary  side," 
in the existing political sphere. Sides were taken during the election.  In 
my estimate what pushed Obama over the top was news of the deepening of the  
crisis of capital and the fear it created throughout all classes. I was part of 
 
the voting section of the working class, (fully understanding that the vast  
majority do not vote), crossing an important juncture I have patiently waited  
for an Obama and the Obama alignment - class intersection, to happen for 
roughly  40 years. Those standing in the path of the masses cyclical trek to 
the 
voting  booth, screaming Obama is just trying to be the highest executive 
officer of the  imperialist bourgeoisie were politely stepped over. However, to 
be 
stepped over  meant being on the same side of the wave. 
 
Obama's call for unity and sacrifice should be agreed with and challenged  by 
the communist call for unity and sacrifice. Unity? Yes. Sacrifice? Yes,  
meaning seeing beyond ones limited economic interest and striving to under  
economic interest as that of a class. A vote for Obama does not translate into  
support of bourgeois politicians as such.  Obama completes that  quantitative 
phase of our history; the end of that quantitative phase of our  history called 
the "Black Power Movement" and integrating blacks into the  political sphere.  
The implications are mind boggling. 
 
I am glad to be back. 
 
Thanks brother. 
 

WL 
 
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