[Pen-l] Re: Re: President Obama

2008-11-06 Thread Julio Huato
Louis Proyect wrote: There are 2 ways at looking at the question of TINA (There is no alternative.) First, you can accept the objective conditions and not go off on an ultraleft binge like the sectarian Marxist-Leninist groups for whom it is always 1917. We don't want to go there.

[Pen-l] Re: Re: President Obama

2008-11-06 Thread Julio Huato
Carl Dassbach wrote: More importantly, he is a politician and politicians, because the deal in compromise and consensus, can never be trusted. But I would rather trust Obama than a coward who writes insulting anonymous e-mails to other list members.

Re: [Pen-l] Re: Re: President Obama

2008-11-06 Thread Louis Proyect
Julio Huato wrote: But, is that all? Avoiding sectarian Marxism-Leninism and denouncing Obama as a Rockefeller Republican is what's required to advance Marxist (TM) socialism in the U.S.? More or less. ___ pen-l mailing list