I honestly don't think that our energies should be put toward electoral
efforts by third parties.
But there is no doubt that in the long-term a party of the working class
is an absolutely necessity.
Now I'm largely paraphrasing Larhs Lih and Mike Macnair, but such a party
would need to be both a
Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
Maybe it's the naivety of youth, but I don't see why such an organization
couldn't openly run candidates in Democratic primaries on an openly
Marxist, oppositional platform for the sake of not a fantasy to transform
or push the Democrats left, but to reach out to
The same could be said of the Greens, except that primary campaign would
be irrelevant.
But what is the Democratic Party? Certainly it's largely neoliberal,
bourgeois to
say the least-- perhaps the world's second most enthusiastic major
capitalist party.
But is there not open primaries? Can a
Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
The same could be said of the Greens, except that primary campaign would
be irrelevant.
The Greens are dead, mostly the result of tail-ending the Democrats.
But what is the Democratic Party? Certainly it's largely neoliberal,
bourgeois to
say the least-- perhaps
