On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:
This is, of course, not how Marx saw it. Since Joseph has never given > any evidence of having read Karl Marx, I can't be surprised that he is > not aware of this. > Lou, we all realize that reading comprehension has never been your strong suit. But what in this passage contradicts anything I've written here? > "Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers > must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to > gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and > party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the > empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ > candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of > reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final > analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled." > > We must assume that Marx was all wet in issuing such a "position". Well, cranky aging Trotskyists on the cusp of neoconservatism certainly are. :-) -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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