Re: [Marxism] George Packer and the DSA

[Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually I can sort of see that analogy between the rhetoric of CPAC and
progressive conferences during the worse of the neoliberal years.  The rest
of his passage is nonsense though.  As far as some of DSA majority stances
in the 1980s, like not standing with Jesse Jackson, I would say that DSA has
moved well to the left since that time (I believe most of the national
committee supported Nader in 2000).  But during the 1980s, it appears to me
that many people of the left were willing to accept a centrist to stop
Reaganism, whereas the right-wing today wants to elect someone further right
despite the progressive direction of public opinion.
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