Re: [Marxism] » Socialist Strategy and the Biden Debate
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * This isn't really just a question of what many would see as a dead-end. This argument goes back much farther than 1964, of course. Much farther back than CP's change-of-line to misapply the Popular Front model to the Democratic party, which was never a popular front. In the 1880s, Henry George was making it when he demolished a genuine, massive labor party in the interest of the Democrats. But it's older than that, too. The point is that, in all this long experience we have never really had a single case where it was not a dead-end And we only need look around at our current circumstance to see the fruits of that long and futile practice. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] » Socialist Strategy and the Biden Debate
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I thank Louis for linking to Elbaum's piece -- I think the crux of the difference between Elbaum and (probably) the majority who subscribe to this list is here: ELBAUM: Today’s which-side-are-you-on dividing line is between a racist authoritarian bloc led by Donald Trump vs. a larger but much more heterogeneous array of forces that, from different angles, regard Trumpism as a dire threat to their rights and interests. This of course leads Elbaum to support what many would see as a dead=end class collaborationist view (the lesser-evilism which has been the mainstay of many on the "left" at least since 1964 ...) On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:34 AM Louis Proyect wrote: > * > > What a surprise. Ex-Maoist Max Elbaum advocates Popular Front against > Trump to prevent fascism. Where have I heard that before? Every election > since 1964. > > > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] » Socialist Strategy and the Biden Debate
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * What a surprise. Ex-Maoist Max Elbaum advocates Popular Front against Trump to prevent fascism. Where have I heard that before? Every election since 1964. https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/socialist-strategy-and-the-biden-debate/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
