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This was a very big victory. And an essential art of the process . . . . Putting her into the U.S. Congress as a Democrat will no more change things than electing Bernie Sanders president as one would have changed things. There are a certain number of people in the American working class who understand this--larger than most of you would say, but still microscopic compared to the working class in general. The vast majority of the working class that are not entirely warped by reactionary prejudices, racism, sexism, jingoism, etc. believe that change can be effected through the Democratic party. This idea is full of crap and will never really work, though efforts to do this may have ripples that move things far beyond the intentions of those making them. The problem is that the masses of workers interested in serious change will not learn this lesson by our repeating what we have been saying for decades. They're going to have to learn this for themselves. Given that, the movement is simply going to have to go through a process of trial and error with these things. This is not going to be like Bernie Sanders, whose campaign actually offered us nothing particularly new in terms of the Democratic experience and did nothing in terms of the problems of being and having a socialist in office under the Democratic label. Her election and her experience--and the obstacles the Democrats will throw her direction--will enter into the material, concrete experience of the DSA. Like I said, it's save them a lot of time if they'd just move independently. But those that we'd be able to convince with words have been convinced. There is now emerging a very broad current that's trying to build a movement and learn from the experience. Our job is not going to be an easy one. But this is part of the process that will educate by experience many more than can be educated by our words. Comradely, Mark L. _________________________________________________________ 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
