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I think the most likely direction if/when she clinches the Congressional seat will be similar to Ro Khanna. I doubt she will stray. The question is how much influence she will have. Amith R. Gupta On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Dennis Brasky 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. > ***************************************************************** > > I have loyally followed this line for just about a half century but today, > when there is only a microscopic organizational left presence, including > even the barely visible electoral campaigns of the SWP in the 1960s and > 70s, today, when the activists we want to talk to and work with are > campaigning for someone not afraid to use the term socialism, not afraid to > support the Palestinians, not afraid to take on immigrant bashers and > killer cops - what do we tell these activists when they ask for our support > - "when you're ready to split from the Democrats, come see us"??? > > If O-C's campaign winds up moving away from these positions and towards > "the center" in order to be "pragmatic", then the answer of course is to > denounce it. If her campaign does not "moderate" its positions (and because > of the demographics of her district in terms of slight support for > Republicans, she may not feel obliged to), what then? Do we keep quiet > about it and just vote for her? If so, can we be accused of "talking the > talk but not walking the walk"?Do we work to support the campaign that we > might be willing to vote for? Just asking. > > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 1:25 PM, John Reimann via Marxism < > > > > But one thing is sure: We cannot effectively campaign for and actually > > take the necessary and possible steps > > towards a working class party if we support ANY Democrats at the same > > time. DSA is proving that (in the negative) every day. > > > > John Reimann > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ 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
