By Mark A. Lause If I had a dollar for every time I heard somebody say that they wouldn’t support the Greens because they were “a bourgeois party,” I’d probably be able to buy my very own state legislator . . . or, at least, a cheap city councilman.
While this assertion seems usually intended to kill the subject, I think a more refined understanding about the class nature of political parties among American Marxists is worth the risk of a discussion. Not that this is easy in 21st century America. Unlike countries where citizens actually hold members in political parties, working people who are not officeholders or functionaries of an American party are only “Democrats” or “Republicans” in the sense of being consumers drawn to a party’s image. All things being equal, they and their class can no more “own” their party than they can the company that made the car they drive. We know which class owns that company. full: http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12238 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
