[lbo-talk] Moore/Clark: The Bigger ?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Oct 19 11:35:42 PDT 2003


Michael Dawson wrote:


>I'm cogitating Doug's point about people only wanting to get rid of
>Republicans. Isn't it also true that when Demos have the White House, all
>they want to do is keep them there, no matter how awful?

Not in the same way. When a Dem is in power, radicals of all stripes are more susceptible to the argument that things are structurally fucked up. Adolph Reed once told me that Clinton was the best organizing tool the Labor Party ever had. And, as I've said before (a line I appropriated from Zizek), you can't plausibly make the argument that there's no significant difference between the two parties when the right-wing party is in power - it's too obviously untrue.

Doug



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