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On 7/1/18 1:55 PM, Jason via Marxism wrote:
We don't have electors but we do have the 'spoiler' problem and
particularly with Trump in office, a left that intervenes in elections in a
way that ignores the possibility of empowering a Trump-ist Republican Party
is a left that will be isolated from the millions it needs to reach and
rightfully so.
Yeah, Marx made some points about the "spoiler" problem:
Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers
must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to
gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and
party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the
empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’
candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of
reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final
analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the
proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is
infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the
presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm
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