-----Mensagem original----- De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]Em nome de Justin Schwartz Enviada em: terça-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2001 02:50 Para: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Assunto: Re: RES: Why the Left Always Loses: What is to Be Done?
Alexandre,
There is no evidence that the left is stronger when it submerges itself in the Democratic Party; on the contrary. The experience is that the DP has been happy to use the energies of leftists, and exclude them from any positions of responsibility or power. Leftists who advocate working in the DP have discovered that they get suckered into promoting right wing policies.
It would be good to have a broad left party here. It would be unlikely to progress as rapidly as the Brazilain PT for lots of reasons, not least of which is that Brazil has a base of radicalized workers for such a party. In addition, we have a deeply institutionalized two party system that rejects any third party. There aren't enough Marxists of any variety here to make a difference; I would be surprised if there were 10,000 self-identified Marxists in America. There is a religiosu left that would be necessarily the basis of any effective left organization here.
--jks
-Could you tell me more about the left wing religious groups in USA? I think -that lack of enough Marxists is a serious trouble, since Marxism is a powerful -tool to understand the capitalist society from a critical point of view. -It´s difficult to build a left wing party withouth a "critical mass" of -Marxist intelectuals and militants.
Alexandre