[lbo-talk] Re: the nader menace, still

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun May 16 09:13:46 PDT 2004


Jon Johanning wrote:


>I don't know any place where Nader has explained how he would deal
>with this problem of turning the ocean liner around (as I like to
>think of it -- changing the course of a huge political/economic
>juggernaut), but perhaps he has worked out how he would do it.
>Certainly he would have to have a very strong popular movement
>behind him -- exactly what he has not proven very good at building.

And not just numbers, but actual institutions, like a party, interest groups, unions, etc etc - precisely the thing he's either negelected or even disdained, as do many greens (power corrupts and all that).

Doug



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