Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> If you
> voted for Gore, you voted for a war criminal; if you stayed
> home or voted for Nader, hold your head high.
If you stayed home, hold your head up?
On the contrary, people who stayed home should be ashamed of themselves, unless they
did something else. Passivity is often the choice of concentration camp inmates. It
is a wrong choice.
In general, the left and Greens generally have not yet grasped the essential thing:
that Bush and his trolls have handed us a priceless political gift, and one we
should cherish and use for all it is worth, all day and all night: for he has made
the Left the champions of democracy. Every revolution ever made, and every struggle
for national liberation, and every struggle for labour rights, every shopfloor
confrontation, has also and in particular been a struggle about democracy. The
franchise was the hardest-won of all social and civil rights, and from it all other
rights and freedoms flow. The Bush coup smacks of desperation and shows just how
deep is the crisis at the heart of US and world capitalism. But it is also a
potentially fatal error, whether forced or no (that remains to be decided, IMO). We
should make the defence of democracy the centrepiece of all our struggles from now
on, for that is where the Bush ghouls and the bankers and financiers of the
corporate monopoly capitalism have put it.
Mark
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