> Had Jackson been serious, we would have had a truly
> significant national organization.
Do you really believe that? Do you really think that the lack of a US Left is the fault of a few bad decisions by some symbolic political father-figure or something? We need a *mass movement* in this country, led from the grassroots and not by the Flavor-of-the-Month. We need this because the enemy we face is not Bill Gates, or the IMF, or even Bill Clinton per se, but an entire economic system which creates and perpetuates these type of individuals, which wages ferocious wars on the Third World, and which is currently well on its way to making the planet unfit for human habitation. To fight global capitalism, we need a global politics; you won't find that in the DNC's charter.
> It's curious that on the one hand you're berating me for even
> considering organizing within the Democratic Party, and telling me to go
> organize with the Labor Party or the Greens -- which necessitates a
> long-range outlook, while on the other hand you are telling me that
> there's no danger of a rightward lurch because the current short-term
> specatacle posses no IMMEDIATE danger. These two just do not fit
> together.
Hardly. The Dems have co-led and co-managed that Rightward shift. And the notion that the Repo-men plan to install fascism is as silly as thinking that the Dumbocrats plan to install state socialism. Their agenda is to return to the 19th century, not the 17th century.
-- Dennis