[lbo-talk] Dennis Kucinich

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 4/1/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 1, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > On 4/1/07, tfast <tfast at yorku.ca> wrote:
> >> Who is this guy he seems pretty sober.  Why can't lefties in the
> >> US get
> >> behind this guy?
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtVb_uEklzQ
> >
> > Because Dennis Kucinich is unendorsed by the Master Class, and most US
> > leftists do not back any presidential candidate who isn't endorsed by
> > that class, even if the candidate is a Democrat.
>
> Since you obviously know just about everything, who makes up this
> "Master Class," and which leftists follow their direction?

I'd be surprised if any US leftist other than Chuck0-like anarchists
(abstention), Solidarity and the ISO (a third party), and incorrigible
pacifists (Dennis Kucinich), who together constitute a small minority
of US leftists, would campaign for anyone other than a
Master-Class-approved Democratic Party candidate and try to change the
parameters of "electability" (the seal of Master Class approval,
signified by direct and indirect campaign donations, corporate media
coverage, etc.).

Being on the Left in the USA basically boils down to being for the
Master Class's Democratic Party (especially for offices higher than
the House of Representatives, at or below which sometimes some
electoral constituencies are small and demographically coherent enough
to allow people who don't meet Master Class approval to get elected).
-- 
Yoshie