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Witty and helpful. Thanks. > On Mar 10, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism > <[email protected]> wrote: > > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Being a senior citizen is a mixed blessing. On the debit side, I have to put > up with ailments that tend to develop once you are past 50 (as I am well > past) such as cataracts, hypertension, and the male-only benign prostatic > hyperplasia. On the credit side, having been on the front lines of most of > the political battles of the past 50 years, I have gained a lot of experience > that allows me to be a bit more skeptical of the Sanders campaign that many > younger people on the left embrace like a shiny new toy. > > Of course, there are some grizzled veterans who are also fixated on the new > toy, an explanation for which has a lot to do with their particular > background that views voting for Democrats as a tactical question. To give > credit where credit is due, I would say that Ethan Young’s article on the > Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung website titled “A Political Revolution” is the most > skillful I have seen to justify voting Democrat—much more informed than, for > example, the Socialist Alternative people whose article explaining their > participation in the Sanders campaign appears juvenile by comparison. > > I should mention that the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung is basically the NY branch > office of Die Linke, the German left party that generally fights the good > fight even though it has erred badly on Syria. In my view, the USA is badly > in need of such a party as the Socialist Alternative comrades argue in their > article but mistakenly believe—as does Young—that the Sanders campaign can > mutate into such a party. It is more likely that I will mutate into Rosa > Luxemburg. > > full: > https://louisproyect.org/2016/03/10/on-bernie-sanderss-political-revolution/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/galliher%40illinois.edu _________________________________________________________ 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
