[lbo-talk] Re:Sandbox Politics (Yoshie Furuhashi)

[hari.kumar at sympatico.ca]

Yoshie to Marvin:
"The New Democratic Party still has a party apparatus that dissident activists can theoretically take over, though in practice it may be nearly impossible to do so.  The Democratic Party doesn't even offer such a theoretical possibility.  There is no party apparatus for 
grassroots activists to take over in it."

REPLY
There is little value in arguing which social-democratic formation is worse. 
Arguably, the prescence of the NDP makes our (that is to say revolutionary socialists wishing to transcend Social-democracy) more difficult not less. I submit that your fine distinction between 'theory' & 'practice' is devoid of any reality as you have applied it. I believe that the history of the Wedge makes that clear in relation to the NDP. 
Hari