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The criticism of the politics of the DSA is on point. That said, the organization is very much alive and growing beyond expectation. French Turn? T -----Original Message----- >From: Louis Proyect via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> >Sent: Dec 4, 2017 9:45 PM >To: Thomas F Barton <thomasfbar...@earthlink.net> >Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Eric Blanc: The Ballot and the Break (the case of >the Mn. Farmer-Labor Party). > > >On 12/4/17 9:23 PM, DW via Marxism wrote: >> Eric Blank goes "Dirty Break" on the Democrats using the Minn. Farmer-Labor >> Party as an example... >> Or does he? >> >> The Ballot and the Break >> By Eric Blanc <https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/eric-blanc> >> >> Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party, the most successful labor party in US >> history, is rich in lessons for challenging the two-party system. >> >> >Blanc digs into historical minutiae like the slogan for a democratic >dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry, and now Farmer-Labor >candidates running in the DP (and Republican, I believe) primaries >without connecting them to the present-day. No wonder Jacobin runs the >article because they are steeped in DSA inside-outside crapola. If Blanc >was serious about the relevance of this, he'd connect it to the DSA's >neo-Fabian politics. >_________________________________________________________ > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
