Re: [Marxism] Greenwald Salon: Does Obama seek USSup.Ct. for peventive detention? (Don't claim to know.)

[Christopher Hutchinson <christopher.hutch@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just the think the students and workers who are radicalizing under the Obama
administration are going to have a deeper understanding of the political
system we have to confront.  They are going to be the best fighters who will
help build the party that challenges capitalism.  We are seeing new leaders
in the antiwar movement and immigrant rights, etc. to argue over who is
worse Obama or McCain is just splitting hairs.  I mean Obama has given more
money to the corporate world than Bush ever dreamed of.  We must put our
energy into building and educating this new leadership that at the moment is
coming 1 or 2 at a time if we are lucky.  I agree with Sky we need not to be
cheerleaders.  We should be leaders and that means pointing out the flaws of
Obama which are endless and not softening what he stands for which is the
rehabilitation of capitalism.

Christopher

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> milongonsinga wrote:
> > The right-wing IS the bigger enemy.
>
> Of course it is the bigger enemy. Hitler was also a bigger enemy than
> the German nationalist party led by Hindenburg. And Hindenburg was a
> bigger enemy than the social democrats who had murdered Rosa Luxemburg.
> But what does this have to do with what political action we engage in?
> The fundamental question facing the left in the U.S. is the need for
> independent political action and if our strategy is dictated by the need
> to "prevent" the bigger enemy from being elected, then we will never be
> able to build a new party of the left. I have always acknowledged that a
> Bush was worse than Kerry, etc. but unless that entails voting for Kerry
> then it is a rather academic question like who is a better basketball
> player, Kobe or Lebron as Sky put it.
>
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