[lbo-talk] Left/Venezuela

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Aug 18 11:45:50 PDT 2004


Shane Mage wrote:


>"breaking with the Dems," for the revolutionary left, is neither
>a long-term strategy nor even part of a long-term strategy. It
>is the condition sine qua non for the possibility of a long-term
>strategy.

It's a reflex, not a strategy. Trots have been saying it for decades, as they splinter further into deeper irrelevance, and now the Greens have taken it up, as they too splinter further into deeper irrelevance. It's a fine impulse if there are steps 2, 3, 4... in mind, but it's looking more and more like no one's gotten beyond step 1 (unless you call splitting steps 2, 3, 4...)

Doug



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