> Check out the ESF links I posted the other day. The CPGB writer, Tina
> Becker, talks about how parties as such are excluded, but Alex
> Callinicos & the rest of the Brit SWP are all over the place as
> individuals. And Massimo de Angelis has an interesting piece, which I'm
> not sure how much I agree with, on the virtues of plurivocality at the
> Commoner link.
>
> CPGB on ESF: <http://www.cpgb.org.uk/esf/>.
>
> Commoner: <http://www.commoner.org.uk/>.
>
> All this touches on some of the reasons I started this list in the first
> place - I think all these strands of the left should talk to each other,
> though I'm not sure how much or well they can all work together.
I'm skeptical that most of the anti-capitalist movement--which generally abhors vanguardism and hierarchy--is going to participate in something that is dominated by the British SWP. We all know their methods pretty well. The ESF suit them because they are all talk and no action. ANd like most vanguardist groups, they are mroe than willing to seize the microphone to take credit for the work of other groups and political tendencies.
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If people eat their ballots, then that nut-case Stockwell Day will get in. Right-wingers aren't angst-ridden about voting. Don't we have to vote strategically, even if that means voting for the Liberals?
Having to decide between Tweedledum and Tweedledee -- that's not a choice -- that's a threat. Our electoral system favors a two-party race, and we should reject it. We have to start working towards a democratic system that doesn't force people to vote for the lesser of two evils (or the evil of two lessers). We can't keep jumping from election to election, voting for one moron because we're terrified that there's something worse. Now's the time to stop legitimizing this process and take a stand for fundamental, long-term change. It's more important to call attention to the farce of electoral politics than to split-hairs by choosing between Tweedledumb andTweedledee (or The Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and the Doormouse for that matter).
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