It's interesting to me, and hopeful, that there is a real debate about the
Sanders campaign at North Star, and that even people there who are critical
of the idea of supporting the Sanders campaign acknowledge that the Sanders
campaign is a positive development for people in the United States who want
to see "socialist organizing" become a practical political project in the
United States.

That, in itself, is a positive development.

I would say though, contra this writer, that there is a range of things
that one can do to "support Sanders." There seems to be a kind of strawman
on offer, that the choices are "give your life over to the Sanders campaign
and swear fealty to the Democratic Party forevermore" vs. "stand aside
untainted." Why? Why can't I support the Sanders campaign in the morning,
support locked out workers in the afternoon, be a critical critic of US
imperialism in the evening, all without "becoming" Sanders supporter or
critical critic?









Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
[email protected]
(202) 448-2898 x1

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