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On 6/29/18 10:49 PM, Nick Fredman wrote:
But it seems to me that it’s the exactly the absence of an NDP or Labor Party that has meant the US Democrats have absorbed the functions that such parties play in other capitalist countries.
Well, look. In this hemisphere, there are no labor parties or socialist parties of any significance outside of the NDP in Canada. I don't have the time nor the energy to explain how that happened. I should add that there was one in Chile but it got destroyed after Pinochet.
The USA, like all these other countries to its south, has two major bourgeois parties--one liberal and one conservative. Nicaragua was a prime example. Even Sandino was a partisan of the Liberal Party. Cuba had the same deal. Fidel Castro started out as a bourgeois politician. What made Fidel Castro and Carlos Fonseca stand out was their defiant break with the Liberal/Conservative hegemonic system.
In the USA, we had someone like that. His name was Malcolm X and they killed him because of his intransigence. If you want to run as a Democrat, just do the left a favor and stop calling yourself a socialist.
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