You'll find some useful elements in here. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv69tg5b
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 11:02 AM Steven L. Robinson via groups.io <srobin21= [email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > > Good points all. > > The best and, as far as I can recall, only successful break with the two > party system in U.S. history on a national level was the one that gave rise > to the Republican Party, which was not the result of the will of a single > charismatic individual or a single political tendency or sect but a coming > together of different forces in the abolitionist and other radical and not > so radical movements as well as disaffected members of the two main > parties. And it was breathtakingly quick, within two presidential election > cycles the Republican Party became the ruling party and the Whigs had been > extinguished on a national level. The leading elected officials of the > Republican Party were mostly former Whigs, like Lincoln, who were united > (loosely) under a new platform. > > I wonder if there are any studies of the formation of the Republican Party > from a Marxist perspective. > > SR > > On 07/10/2024 8:06 AM PDT Mark Lause <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A few thoughts here on the campaigns of West and Stein. > > 2. Related to this is the fact that they are running separate campaigns. > Part of the moralizing nonsense of that protest vote "speaking truth to > power" crap is the idea that it means something to run your own, separate > "principled" campaign. It's not distinct to the West and Stein campaigns, > of course. There are half a dozen, if not more, socialist campaigns. What > these things are actually saying by doing that is that building a movement > party is less important than recruiting people to my sect. > > We have a number of options of candidates opposed to the duopoly with > politics that can be supported in principle. Rally behind the one with the > biggest numbers and we have the best chance of kicking the most serious > hole in this rust bucket of the corporate political system. > > I don't even want to hear why the Greens are mad at West or why West > couldn't go with the Greens. It's all bullshit. Get serious and pull > together or step aside. > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31088): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31088 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107144290/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
