******************** 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. *****************************************************************
On 6/29/18 7:14 PM, Nick Fredman via Marxism wrote
While I don’t want to judge electoral tactics for US socialists from the outside, it is curious to read from Australia statements that Ocasio-Cortez and others are absolutely tied to the Democrat machine and definitely bound to be coopted, when the Democrats have nothing like the party discipline of our Labor Party or even of the Greens. And though Labor is much more of a proper membership organisation that the Democrats with formsl affiliation of unions, the discipline strictly imposed on representatives and candidates has only the most attenuated connection to the party and union membership, and is directly controlled by privileged parliamentary and union bureaucracies with close ties to corporate donors.
The key difference between a reformist Labor Party and the Democratic Party is based on class. For example, socialists have had a tactical orientation to the NDP in Canada for decades now but none have oriented to the Liberal Party. Unless we can distinguish between a bourgeois party and a reformist social democratic or labor party, we are missing the all-important class criterion.
_________________________________________________________ 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
