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>Randy Steindorf wrote:
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>>As Rose Luxembourg said a hundred years ago, the decisive principle in
>>party
>>building is between reform or revolution. It still remains the same
>>today.
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>Hmm, well neither reform nor revolution is doing very well right now. And I
>don't think that citing the eternal verities is going to reverse that.
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>Doug
As I indicated this is the principled stand to take on party building. If you are just looking for "doing very well right now" then Bush and the Republican Party, with 75% popularity are the ones to go with, but I imagine you would have to give up some principles to do it. But then in the next election the Democrats might regain their popularity, and a few more principles would have to be jetisoned to switch to the Party "doing very will right now." Since both Democrats and Republicans are moving toward a barbarous use of their party in the legislative system, by reintroducting COINTEPRO, preparing for nuclear first strikes against the demonized enemy of the day, preparing jail cells for political prisoners, preparing secret tribunals for perceived political crimes, increasing the black budget for CIA and FBI "black bag" operations, this with a supposed 75% approval rate of both Democratic and Republican voters, I would quote another "eternal verity", the choice is between revolutionary socialism and barbarism.
grs
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