Re: Run, Ralph, run!!!

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/15/07, ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The smear campaign from the "liberals", not just against Ralph Nader but
> against anyone marginally leftist such as Kucinich, is already underway.
> The reasoning is claimed to be "pragmatic" and "gradualist" but the
> rhetoric is vicious and exclusionary.
>
> As opposed to such "liberal" outlets as the "netroots", the few of us
> who may consider ourselves left of such "pragmatic liberalism" are
> ill-organised and ill-focused. If we are (in terms of principles) the
> equivalent, for the left, of the radical wings of the right (choose from
> any of religious right, libertarians, etc), then the comparison casts an
> even poorer light on us.

Back when I was active in Solidarity, I proposed that, after the 2004
elections, we work with other socialists and leftists who believe the
Democratic Party will not help end the war and together organize a
national conference so we won't be so ill-organized and ill-focused.
For various reasons, internal and external, that didn't happen.
French leftists to the Left of the SP couldn't come up with a unity
candidate either this year, but they, keen on keeping the momentum
going after the No vote on the European constitution and the anti-CPE
victory, at least gave it a shot and had many meetings trying to find
one.
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Yoshie
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