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"Lesser evil is a losing strategy. It paves the way for greater evils." (Stein)
Stein should pay attention to herself regarding the larger treachery of lesser
evilism in supporting Russia and the Dictator Al Assad.
With every good point, she diminishes what it means to fight for independent
political action by accepting the treachery of the Baathist-supporting pretend
"Left". Stein remains the best chance to dismantle the Democratic Party and
mount a veritable resistance to Democratic and Republican reaction that will
surely come regardless which candidate the capitalist class chooses and the
masses are forced yet again to choose between no choice and no choice at all.
We can only hope that the Green Party will create a space--if only in the
elections--for galvanizing the mass movement that is sure to come as Black and
Brown people, women, and youth--within the working class--yet again are faced
with the combined assaults from all the politicians representing capitalism;
including Sanders and all those that thought that supporting the Democrats was
a "last stand" against reaction. Like Custer before them, such people will be
left defending each other as the masses overtake them. History will not be kind
and neither will the revolutionary masses.
And, like the Sioux and indigenous nations before us, it is not written that
we will be victorious immediately. But, we can only be inspired by the first
nations at Standing Rock fighting for the simple right to drink water. Native
peoples have founded a unity that has inspired and caused reverberations
throughout the working class (indicated by the recoil of labor misleaders who
have pinned their hopes with their capitalist masters). Young Black and White
athletes have found a way to express how they are affected by the police
occupation of oppressed communities. Instead of 2 Black youth and one White
youth on a podium at the Olympics registering resistance and solidarity, we now
have hundreds at a multitude of sporting events registering the mass discontent
with injustice. The storm is coming and we have to recognize it. The aftermath
is not a victory inevitable, but the mounting of a struggle is.
I suggest that internationalism will be the proving ground. Being "anti-war" in
this coming period will not be divorced from the revolutionary struggle against
dictators, right wing religious and non-religious reactionaries, and the
governments of the imperialist bourgeoisie who keep them in power (indeed if it
ever was). Either Stein will learn this hard lesson or she will be swept aside
by better leaders emanating from mass struggles.
As ever, solidarity with the oppressed and remaining on the side of workers and
the oppressed of all countries, will determine whether one is actually a
leftist or if the term becomes arcane and undescriptive of revolutionary
politics.
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