Eubulides wrote:
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> From: "Shane Taylor" <s-t-t at juno.com>
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> > Funny how, if I assume representative democracy is objectively
> > counter-revolutionary,
Who assumes that. The revolutionary tradition holds that parliamentary democracy is something to be fought for -- and defended. As I've indicated over and over again for years, implicitly and explicitly, the fight for reforms is at the heart of Lenin's thought on revolution. (Note I say "thought" -- not "theory." The CPC was wise in making that distinction, and I'm extending it to Lenin.)
> The Revolutionaries' hostility to voting Bush out
> > in '04 makes tremendous sense. To vote is to believe that even minor
> > positive change can occur this side of the Revolution, and by bouji
> > means.
Bullshit. The reason for refusing to campaign for the DP, as Yoshie has indicated so many times that Kelley is now accusing her of repetitiousness, is that we need a mass movement (for real reforms), and that it is a waste of radical energy to campaign for the DP. (I don't give a hang one way or the other how anyone spends 30 seconds next November in the voting booth.)
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> > What's at stake is the revolutionary identity.
Gee. Can't you dream up some at least minimally fresh insults.
> >
> > -- Shane
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> Nay, the infallibility of God[s]
Agreed. The Anyone-But-Bush Politburo is trying to impose stalinist-type discipline on rest of us. Go DP or be forever exiled seems to be the cry. How dull.
Carrol
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> Ian
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