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Right, daily politics are different than strategic thinking. Sure they are. Sure they are not. Without strategic thinking, there are no daily politics. The CPUSA does not believe daily politics are different than strategic thinking. Their argument is clearly that their daily politics are a fundamental part of their strategy-- so that supporting this disgraceful healthcare bill which further circumscribes women's, and poor women's rights in particular to safe medical cares, is an essential daily part of the strategy of linking up with the "mass movement" supporting Obama. So let's chuck out another of Dogan's arguments, along with his misunderstanding of Marx's analysis of the Free Trade Party, as this specious distinction between daily politics and strategic thinking doesn't even exist for those for whom Dogan thinks he is justifying its existence. We might add, regarding the Free Trade Party and "support" of the democratic bourgeoisie, whatever ambiguity one wants to impute to Marx in this, and Marx himself was not ambiguous in the least, by 1848-1849 Marx knew fully what disaster awaited those trying to force an alliance of the workers with that bourgeoisie, of subordinating the independent struggle of the workers against capitalism to the "democratic bourgeoisie's" conflict with their "undemocratic" class brothers. Marx knew that and evaluated that based on the failure of the revolutions of 1848-1849, failure he ascribed directly to the subordination of the working class to leadership, the ideology, the demands of the "democratic bourgeoisie." 160 year later and some Marxists still find in their Marxism everything BUT the real development of capitalism, everything but the real history of revolutonary struggle, everything but a practical program for shattering the power of the bourgeoisie. But I'm not perplexed, scandalized, or even the least bit surprised. . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dogan Gocmen" <dgn.g...@googlemail.com> <sartes...@earthlink.net> Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 8:14 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Communist Party backs Senate health care "reform" bill >. So > daily politics are something entirely different than strategic thinking. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
