[lbo-talk] Democracy

[T Fast]

I am going to regret this Yoshie but what you write sounds suspiciously like 
something Ali or Henwood might say with a couple of amendments.  Good to 
know that you believe in tactical strategic voting.  I can just hear: "Now 
since third parties are not supported by wide sectors of the working class 
and our allies but to support somone like Kerry..."

Travis

Yoshie wrote
> While I would never tell the Socialist Party, the Workers World Party, the 
> Socialist Workers Party, the Socialist Equality Party, etc. not to run 
> their own candidates advocating socialism rather than timely transitional 
> demands like the Nader/Camejo platform or the Green Party platform, I hope 
> that they will soon realize that the task of the day -- if socialists are 
> to get involved in electoral politics at all -- is not to advocate 
> Socialism Now since socialism is not yet supported by wide sectors of the 
> working class and our allies but to support someone like Nader advancing 
> the platform like Nader/Camejo's -- a platform most of whose planks are 
> already actually desired by the majority of the working class.
> -- 
> Yoshie
>