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On 4/8/16 3:41 PM, Ralph Johansen via Marxism wrote:
Why is the Sanders campaign in toto vilified by parts of the left and regarded as unworthy of active support, while it lasts as a unique and possibly never-to-be-repeated phenomenon (capital as a metabolic system tends to close all effective avenues to an alternative) - unless it can be shown to be, on balance and with the foregoing in mind, harmful?
For the same reason I and most Marxmailers (except a handful of pro-Castro fanatics) lambasted Barack Obama in 2007 when he was being hailed as the Second Coming of FDR. This is not my first rodeo on DP saviors. I remember selling the SWP "McCarthy Truth Kit" in 1968--not about Joe but Gene. We put an RFK Truth Kit a bit later. There was the same kind of zealotry around the "peace candidates" in 1968 just as there would be for McGovern 4 years later. I don't believe in conspiracy theories but such campaigns function objectively as a way of keeping the umbilical cord connected to the ruling class's most trusted way of co-opting the left.
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