it's heating up

[Justin Schwartz]

Fair enough, but "some degree of cooperation" isn't the same as "bend over 
and spread your cheeks": I will work with Democrats on issues where there is 
enough overlap of shared interest to warrant it; I will support Democrats' 
on issues where i don't really care if they do likewise where I do care. I 
will even vote for _genuinely_ progressive Dems, typically at the local 
level. In my job I cannot campaign, but I would not denounce people who did 
campaign for Dems who are good guys--not not-really-lesser-evils. However, 
we have to get more out of it than, "We're really terrible and won't listen 
to you, but think of how much worse the other guy is." --jks


>From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: it's heating up
>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:21:03 -0400
>
>At 07:46 PM 10/25/00 +0000, Justin wrote:
> >did not start out from a Trot "plague on both your houses" point of view. 
>My
> >own conclusion is that a plague on both their houses is right. Third 
>parties
> >are just platforms to raise a fuss; the real action is in mass movements,
> >and to hell with the Dems--they say the same about us, except when the 
>vote
> >is close. --jks
>
>
>True, but the organization of economy and society that made mass movements
>possible in the past does not exist anymore.  Mobilizing 10 thousand
>workers is much easier when they work for the same plant and live in the
>same neighborhood than when they work for a myriad of smaller firms and
>live apart in the suburban wasteland.
>
>Mobilizing mass movement today requires much more networkig and
>organzational resources, which in turn requires cutting deals and
>compromising.  There will be no mass movement without a social base and
>organziational resources, and that requires some degree of cooperation with
>the existing political structures.
>
>wojtek
>
>

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