Com. Doug wrote: "I'm thinking of starting a "Marxists for Dean" caucus, with the slogan, "It's conjunctural, man." Any volunteers to sign the initial manifesto?"
Count me in, although I'm soft-selling my own politics among my fellow Dean volunteers. They're Democrats and I don't want to shock them too much. --
The question is what is accomplished by such a group? It's existence will of course be used to attack Dean. Some rightwing sites are counting the number of references to Ted Rall on Dean blogs to "expose" Dean's anti-American credentials.
So there should be some expected countervailing gain from creating such a named affinity group. I'm all for using the S- word and even the M- word, but the costs of such labelling in our culture should be justified by analyzed gains from it.
-- nathan