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Really what? That’s a neat little article by Lenin, concisely dissecting the U.S. bourgeois parties of his day. It doesn’t say anything about tactically voting for one of them to stop the other, but I assume he was against, as was Debs. He doesn’t suggest that the Dems were a lesser evil than the Repubs, or vice versa. Lenin had equally strong denunciations of the bourgeois parties of his own country, Russia, and there, under specific circumstances, he advocated a defensive vote for Cadet candidates to stop the Black Hundreds from taking office. So where’s the principle of *never* voting for a bourgeois candidate?-- On 3/16/20 1:48 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: From: http://lrp-cofi.org/statements/elections-capitalist-parties.html "Our reconsideration of the principle of not voting for capitalist parties is yet to be concluded, but our study of the history of the Marxist movement has confirmed that the proponents of this principle, ourselves included, have perpetuated a good deal of mythology. "We do not know how or when the principle became the common view of whole sections of the U.S. far left, including just about all Trotskyists. To the best of our knowledge, no such principle was ever cited by our classical Marxist teachers: Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin or Trotsky." Really? V.I. Lenin, The Results and Significance of the U.S. Presidential ElectionsPravda No.164, November 9, 1912.... _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
