The Democratic Party & the Illusion of Splits in the Ruling Class, was Re: Cockburn: The Coup

Adam Pressler adampopulist at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 20 15:11:09 PST 2000


--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Vikash Yadav wrote:
>
> > Why haven't the Democrats gone on the offensive?
> I think the left should
> > adopt much more vicious tactics.
>
> There is no *organized* left in the United States,
> so it makes no
> sense to speak of "The Left" doing or not doing
> anything.

There is no organized left, because we have been unwilling or unable to cultivate bizarre millionaires to fund our activities. We need a few R.M.Scaifes before we will see an equivalent of the American Family Council, Christian Coalition, or other such group.

Any ideas on how to bring millionaires into a decidedly anti-wealth left? Not me either. Could it be that we would have to develop a rhetoric of populism as opposed to class struggle? Any takers? Or is populism not truly Left?

===== Adam Pressler

Dubya is that rarest of all gifts to an opposition, a genuine horse's ass, the Louis XVI of postmodernism. - Dennis R. Redmond

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