"The second task is to form movements and to ensure that some of these movements engage what has been the chief instrument of progressive politics in the United States, the Democratic Party. The movement should be to form a position within the Democratic Party, to seek power within the Democratic Party, and to change the course of the Democratic Party."
I believe that this statement, in these precise terms, is Mangabeira Unger after OWS. Cf. chapter 9 of his Left Alternative. About the time Mangabeira published his Left Alternative, I was arguing thusly: http://www.swans.com/library/art11/jhuato01.html This is Mangabeira in 2009, on Argentina's tv (as a Brazilian minister), on how South America should deal with globalization. (Prompted by the interviewer, he refused here to praise or attack Obama.) Re. globalization, I made arguments similar to Mangabeira's in the early 2000s on Louis Proyect's list, which exposed me to Louis' ire. Here's exactly the same argument made in an interview to El País. http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2009/02/09/actualidad/1234134002_850215.html Also, people can find on PEN-L archives a video clip I posted recently re. Obama. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
