Yoshie wrote: >The choice Sader recommends is to vote for Lula, which makes >sense, since voting for Lula doesn't stop you from fighting any of >Lula's policies if he gets reelected.*
On 10/6/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I guess this makes the same kind of sense as SDS's "Part of the Way with LBJ".
why do we put so much emphasis on voting? an individual vote doesn't mean much, if anything. (In this case, it doesn't mean anything, since none of the people in this thread are Brazilian.) What's important is the creation of an extra-parliamentary movement (like what Lula started with or SDS). If the movement grows and sticks to its principles, it can push the state toward slightly more humane policies. -- Jim Devine / "it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be." -- KM
