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If > anyone can show me one single example of radicals going into the Democratic > party and building something useful to them (and not just useful to the > Democrats), I'd be quite willing to sit down and take a look at it. > > ML > > OK --- how's this -- the "clean for Gene" and other attempts to move the > Democratic Party to an antiwar position was the beginning of a battle that > ended in 1975 with Congress cutting off all funds for efforts by the FORD > administration to intervene to prop up the falling Saigon government --- > The antiwar movement was outside the Democratic Party (anti-imperialists) > as well as inside it .... > The role of anti-war members of Congress from the very beginning created a broad coalition from the pro=NLF forces in the anti-war movement to the true pacifists to the establishment types who decided the war "wasn't worth it" anymore --- It was even a "liberal" REpublican Charles Goodell who introduced the first "law" to cut off all funding to Vietnam (he did this in 1970 and promptlly lost his re-election bid to "Conservative " James Buckley. I think that's a good model .... Could be replicated in the anti-Trump movement. _________________________________________________________ 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
