Ulhas: "there isn't a viable strategy on which effective tactics can be 
based.If this state of affairs continues in future, IMHO we will be 
very lucky if Marxist mass politics survives in the long term."

Marxist mass politics is already dead. It's not a question of all 
agreeing at this point to follow the same strategy, but that tactical 
considerations - voting etc - should be subordinated to larger 
strategic questions. We need to recognise that not all on the left will 
want to follow the same program. But rather than maintaining the 
fiction of unity, pretending that we're all part of a big coalition, we 
should be unafraid of recognising that we're not even all on the same 
side.  I'm not arguing for sectarianism - talking to each other is no 
bad thing (!).  But we're not all part of a 'movement of movements'.

Ulhas's point suggests that nothing can be done - if there's no viable 
strategy, what is there? Arbitrary tactics? Strategy might be 
defensive, but a defensive strategy is still viable, and is still a 
basis on which tactics can be based.









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