Myth of the GOP Working Class

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 12:09 AM -0600 1/4/03, Carrol Cox 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.

I agree with you in that the main forms of political activity for 
leftists shouldn't be electoral politics.  On the other hand, the 
lack of left-wing electoral alternatives might make it more likely 
that movements (when they rise) get absorbed again and again into the 
DP, in effect sustaining its presence and preventing the collapse of 
legitimacy of the sort that AD suffered in Venezuela.
-- 
Yoshie

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