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On 3/6/20 7:28 PM, Nick Fredman via Marxism wrote:
On Green Left's coverage:
Louis has expressed disdain at Australians having an opinion on the
Sanders movement, but inconsistently as he prefers the opinion of a
Socialist Alternative staffer who I don't know has ever been active outside
Melbourne, to those of US Marxists covered recently in Green Left: Vince
Emanuele <
Yes, I do value Socialist Alternative's analysis highly. I have even on
occasion proffered my advice on elections taking place in other
countries when the class issues are so patently obvious. 18 years ago
there was an ongoing debate on the French elections on Marxmail, with
some comrades urging a vote for Chirac, a bourgeois politician, as a way
of fending off Le Pen (the father, not the daughter.)
My views on the election can be read here:
https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2002-May/068648.html
I think that you and your comrades have extrapolated from the rottenness
of the Australian Labour Party the rationale that since it is rotten and
since the Democratic Party in the USA is rotten, why not a "tactical"
vote for another rotten party when the candidate is so breathtakingly
wonderful like Bernie Sanders. After Lenin recommended that the British
Communists vote for Labour that had candidates far worse than Sanders,
what's the big deal about voting for Democrats? Didn't Lenin urge
supporting Labour like a rope supports a hanging man?
I have often considered the possibility of spending a month or so
studying the Australian Labour Party in order to give you and your
comrades a proper answer but I've learned that you are here mainly to
intervene. It would be a waste of time for me to get up to speed on
Australian politics when the other side of a debate is so into
groupthink. Viva Rojova. Viva Sanders. Bleh-bleh.
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