What is it to be "within" the Democratic Party? Not to get all Fancy Dan here, but there's a phenomenology of parties--not all exist in the same way or have the same processes. The DP apparently includes lots and lots of formally separate committees for this and that and other organizations and sub-organizations that have a life of their own and somehow coordinate.
For example, in Washington, DC, it appears that many of the varying protest organizations behind the local BLM demos and their anti-inequality white penumbra are able to be controlled to some extent by the DP, which apparently can tell them (or reach a consensus on) when to demonstrate and when not. How does that work? What's the structure here? Is going to a meeting organized by one of these orgs the same thing as working for a candidate on the DP party line? For that matter could some of the peripheral orgs or suborgs be infiltrated and "subverted"? It seems that the DP is actually monolithic with regard to the class interests it serves. But its survival as an institution appears to rely at least to some extent on the fact that it isn't organizationally monolithic in the same way in which the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was monolithic. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6456): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6456 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80617982/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
