[lbo-talk] Re: Anybody But Bush for Empire

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >The question I'd like to ask Doug is how he squares the fearless call to
> >action expressed in Patti Smith's line, "We created it.  Let's take it
> >over," with the slogan motivated by nothing but fear: Anybody But Bush.
>
> Like I've said a hundred times now, the political and discursive
> atmosphere created by W is fearful and repressive. If he were
> replaced, the atmosphere would improve. And it'd be somewhat easier
> to organize unions.
>
> Doug
>

I think that it was once (say, in the life and times of FDR) possible to
say that the Democratic Party was better for unions and social movements
in the USA than the Republican Party within the parameters of
capitalism.  I don't think it is true any longer.  It took a Democratic
president, rather than a Republican one, to eliminate AFDC, to take just
one example.

Besides, as Ted argues, both arguments can't be true at the same time:
the multitude are ready to "take it over" and the multitude must vote
for Anybody But Bush ("or else").  If the multitude were ready to "take
it over," why bother electing a Democrat?

Yoshie