[lbo-talk] Forcing Political Change (Booing Manning Marable)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 17 10:39:19 PST 2004


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>If history is any guide, the Greens (and others) will not be able to
>change the American electoral system

So then a vote for the Greens boils down to a form of self-expression, which is what a lot of American politics, esp left politics, is fundamentally about. That's what Mitch Cohen and his gang of booers were doing at the SSC, too. No organization, no strategy - just a gesture of purity that could help re-elect one of the worst presidents we've ever had.

Doug



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