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> I had no idea when I took part in the polemics before Obama got elected > that we would enter so soon into the dialectics of disillusionment. But we > are right in there now. It is a reminder once again that political time has > a different rythmic to chronological time. What is happening is that we are > all being compelled to face with sober senses [our] real conditions of life > and [our] relations with [our] kind. > > What is to be done? Well of course I cannot offer any advice to American > comrades from this distance. But it seems to me that the task remains the > same. Somehow or other one has to smash the Republican-Democrat duopoly. > The day progressive people stop voting for the Democrats is the day the > American ruling class will be worried. The creation of a borad party/front > seems to me the way to go, and I agree that it should not handicap itself > with the label "socialist". > I also want to say a word about complaining about Obama. I think criticism from the likes of Krugman and Huffington is very important. For these are nothing if not signs of a crisis among the bourgeois ideologists. We should join that criticism as loudly and as clearly as possible. Every post on this list which highlights Obama's treachery is important. It is all part of the chorus of disenchantment that should shake the bourgeois ideologists who still cling to Obama to their roots. The result may well be that Obama will turn out to be a one termer. So be it. I know Afro-Americans will take this very badly, but it may be that they have to go through this period of having their hopes raised just to be dashed. I regularly play Obama's Chicago speech to my students as an ecellent example of political rhetoric. It was extremely impressive and it was all a pack of lies. We owe it to the truth to keep saying that in every forum we can command. Our advantage is that even the most moderate are beginning to see that. regards Gary ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
