Dr. Baraka,
Once again I will try to, shall we say, dissect your anti-Nader rhetoric.
Is'nt this an instance of "the kettle calling the pot black?" It is true
that "the split between the Social Democrats and Spartacists & other
Communist fractions was the basis for Hindenburg then Hitler" but "all, then
trade unionists, Jews, Gypsies, were [not, thank God!] wasted."
Your inconsistency amazes me, Dr. Baraka! You now say that "The "upper
hand" they had vanished based on wht Lenin called Otzovism and
Liquidationism. One group too revolutionary to Unite, the other making
opportunist submission to the right," While advocating that "leftists" should
unite and make opportunist submission to Gore, which you sugar-coat by
calling it "concrete concessions."
"We have no upper hand or not much of a hand at all [but not just]
because we are SPLIT now." We never had the upper hand and never will, until
we recognize that the problem is neither Bush or Gore -- the problem is a
system that is rigged to ensure the hegemony of the two-party system and
prevent the emergence of a viable Third Party.
I do not believe that Ralph Nader is a "one man band whereby, read the
platform, he wants to do quality control on imperialism at best can move the
prostitute a trifle to the Left, which is good." Nader is helping to build a
Green Party that is blazing a trail for others to follow. Why do you persist
in ignoring this fact, are there ulterior motives? I do not know who the
"dangs" are, but I do know that, whoever they are, they are not clairvoyant.
Therefore, they could not "let Buchanan emerge, with a "colored" woman v.p.
on the ticket to" neutralize the Democrat'x Lieberman move. First things
first Dr. Baraka.
No good can come from irresponsible criticism. Do you sincerely believe
in your slogan, "March Separately, Strike Together!" Dr. Baraka? Are you
sincere when you say that Nader's Green Party campaign "can only have
positive meaning in practical politics if it is one aspect of a national
anti-imperialist electoral (and with practice around other key issues)
United Front, Lenin's Left Bloc, if you will?" If you are sincere, instead
of tossing petards, why not set an example? Become the catalyst that will
unify the "left" and rally around the Nader campaign even if you have to
force vital concessions from the Green Party. Otherwise, you are merely
grandstanding and displaying the endemic trait that has been the scourge of
leftists from Trotsky's time to the present.
I am perplexed Dr. Baraka when you say that "even at this point [we can]
force some vital concessions from the Democrats." Aside from taking their
money, what kind of concessions can we force from a politician that is not
beholden to us? We survived Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush, if we have a vital
Third Party in the wings, I am sure that we can survive " the Texas
Cheney-Saw murderer's enabler."
Peace,
JoeMosley
In a message dated 10/5/00 1:16:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<< The split between the Social Democrats and Spartacists & other Communist
fractions was the basis for Hindenburg then Hitler. And all, then trade
unionists, Jews, Gypsies, were wasted.
The "upper hand" they had vanished based on wht Lenin called Otzovism and
Liquidationism. One group too revolutionary to Unite, the other making
opportunist submission to the right.
We have no upper hand or not much of a hand at all because we are SPLIT
now. Nader's one man band whereby, read the platform, he wants to do quality
control on imperialism at best can move the prostitute a trifle to the Left,
which is good. Though the dangs have let Buchanan emerge, with a "colored"
woman v.p. on the ticket to move the electorate back rightward. Thus , they
feel, neutralizing the Democrat'x Lieberman move, maent to reunify the split
Black-Jewish political affinity of the Civil Rights days. Feeling that
perhaps that they can pull the feminist trend with the Blacks, plus the
foflks who can believe the bs "Populist" tip smeared like mayonaise over
Buchanan's the cold right essence of Buch's line.
As I said previously, Nadir's "campaign", can only have positive meaning
in practical politics if it is one aspect of a national anti-imperialist
electoral (and with practice around other key issues) United Front, Lenin's
Left Bloc, if you will. "March Separately , Strike Together!". Otherwise it
is merely petty bourgeois grandstanding. Another sectarian "get rich quick"
scheme!
Neither an essentially Consumer Advocacy based campaign or Environmentalism,
both largely petty bourgeois priorities, are at the cutting edge of mass
democratic struggle, but joined with a broad spectrum of other
anti-imperialist organizations and movements, we can begin the arduous
process of principled Unity and even at this point force some vital
concessions from the Democrats. To "go it alone" is more likely to be the
Texas Cheney-Saw murderer's enabler.
>>
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