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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/12/vito-marcantonio-socialist-congress-puerto-rico-civil-rights:
"Marcantonio, who was never a member of the Democratic Party, deftly
exploited every ballot line while maintaining his independence with the
backing of New York’s large and powerful left."
The DSA/Jacobin party line rears its ugly head once again. We are told
implicitly that Vito Marcantonio's example of running in Republican,
Democratic and American Labor Party primaries was effective, more or
less echoing Eric Blanc's "dirty break" theory. Most radicals would
blanch at the idea of running as a Republican, and even a smaller number
at the idea of running as a Democrat but how could you be opposed to
running as an ALP'er?
Well, the American Labor Party was a tactic used by Democrats to wean
votes away from Roosevelt as Wikipedia points out:
On April 1, 1936, Sidney Hillman, John L. Lewis, and other officials of
the unions of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of
Industrial Organizations established Labor's Non-Partisan League (LNPL),
an organization akin to the modern political action committee, designed
to channel money and manpower to the campaigns of Roosevelt and others
standing strongly for the declared interests of organized labor.
During the summer of 1936, the New York state organization of LNPL was
transformed into an independent political party in an effort to bolster
Roosevelt's electoral chances in the state by gaining him a place on a
second candidate ballot line. The opportunity to pull the lever for the
new American Labor Party, it was hoped, would siphon away a good
percentage of the nearly 200,000 votes cast in 1932 for Norman Thomas
and the Socialists.
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