Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> What is to be done
> in the meantime? No electoral participation?
>
Obviously some leftists are going to continue to work in such formations
as the Green Party and the Labor Party -- which probably ought to start
running candidates (and take a more hostile position towards the DP). I
wouldn't myself, but it is good that some do. But for the most part it
isn't so much formally rejecting electoral participation as choosing
other forms of activity.
There's probably going to be a flood of leftists in 2004 working for Bush's defeat. That is, for about 6 months political activity will pretty much come to a halt. I think it important that at least a goodly sprinkling of locally visible leftists refuse to join in. We've got to keep alive the idea of a mass movement as something that doesn't collapse every four years.
How? Probably for the present by bumbling along as best we can.
Carrol
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