West on Bradley's Gravitas

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Jan 16 14:26:42 PST 2000


On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:


> What's an "avowed socialist" doing campaigning for Bill Bradley?

He's a DSA socialist and has been since back when they were DSOC -- the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee [of the Democratic Party]. One can surely disagree with their strategy of pulling the Democrats to the left (and I know you do quite vehemently) but given his organizational affiliation there's no contradiction at all between his label and his actions. He thinks Bradley is the left-most candidate (and the best on race), and he hopes that by supporting him, he can influence him afterwards. And to be fair, most of what looks so silly in the Times article would have sounded just fine on the undergraduate stump, which is where it was taking place.

Michael

__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com



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