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On 12/10/15 9:46 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote:
Love those comrades (ISO), but damned if I'll support a campist
middle-class party (Greens).
Why not? If I was in Britain, I'd support Corbyn. If I was in Venezuela,
I would have voted for Maduro even if his position on Syria was ten
times worse than Jill Stein's. There are multiple contradictions
involved with the left right now and we can't make Syria a litmus test.
Speaking of which, I just posted this to FB:
The intense phobia, which is easy to understand, over Trump in
particular and all the other Republican candidates as well, has the
objective effect of strengthening the "lesser evil" logic that is
already kicking in around the reaction against Doug Henwood's book and
any other criticisms of Hillary Clinton. By the time that Sanders is
eliminated, the pressure to vote for Clinton will reach a crescendo with
Sanders himself beating the drum like a major in a Rose Bowl parade. It
means marginalizing the Green Party and deepening the ties between the
left and the Democratic Party. While it is tough for the left to
acknowledge, Trump, Cruz, Carson et al are symptoms of capitalist
crisis. With the Koch brothers funding every anti-working class
initiative across the country, the Democratic Party will function as
aspirin for someone suffering from a brain tumor.
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