[lbo-talk] Does the wolf in sheep's clothing provide "a betterdiscursive and organzing environment for more radical critiquesof The System"

[Doug Henwood]

Joseph Wanzala wrote:


>...the main point of this article.....:
>
>http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2003/06/5947.php
>
>is to reveal an important aspect of the Democratic Party, its 
>historic role as a counterinsurgency operation whose aim is to 
>co-opt and sidetrack political activists, keep them from creating an 
>independent political movement, and divert their energy into 
>legitimating and reinforcing the political system which maintains 
>the status-quo.

Thanks! I'd never heard this argument before!! Now I'm going to have 
to rethink everything!!!

Doug