Marxist for Dean? Re: [lbo-talk] Dean - biz as usual???????

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I am actually with Nathan here. If we want Dean to
win, we should not impose on his campaign unnecessary
baggage that would impede the attainment of that
object. I would not be eligible for the club, since I
am not a Marxist anyway.  In fact almost none of the
sign-ons say that they are,w hich creates a further
reason not to have it. Why stick this stuff on Dean
when you all aren't Marxists anywa? I don't mean, btw,
that we ought not pressure the candidate to take
better stands on the issue. But it's harmful and
pointless to raise, as itw ere, red flags. jks

--- Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "boddhisatva" <boddhisatva at netzero.net>
> 
>    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
> 
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