Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> 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.
>
This is, I think, true. What its implications are for the practice of left activists and orgaizers is, however, a separate question. (One can, passively, hope for a DP victory just as one hopes for good weather when planning a picnic -- but that is all that is obvious.)
Carrol