Doug Henwood wrote: > > Michael Hoover wrote: > > >aw shucks, i'm blushing... > > Before that blush fades... On your rec, I read Stonecash's book about > class and party. What do you make of it? Among other things, he > argues that the D's move to the right is exaggerated, and that > there's still a substantial class aspect to partisan allegiance. Both > these claims are counter to standard U.S. left wisdom. >
Not so. It is "standard left wisdom" (if one wants to use such a silly phrase) that _unfortunately_ "partisan allegiance" (i.e. the loyalty of passive voters) has such a substantial class aspect. The whole purpose of building mass movements independently of the DP & the AFL-CIO is to break that allegiance to a Party which is central to the pacification of the working class in the u.s. Once in awhile you could argue with specifiable human beings rather than the ghillies and ghosties that exist only in your own imagination. As long as workers give unquestioning support to their chief enemy they will never build institutions of their own. > Doug
