[lbo-talk] Nader, et al

Jim Straub rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 08:52:23 PDT 2007


I guess I chose C.

Others?


> The choices for socialists are now either a) to merely observe political
> life or abandon politics altogether for other pursuits, b) adapt to the
> liberal parties and institutions which today form the only opposition to the
> conservative ones and become leading figures within them, as some have c)
> adapt to the consciousness of the ranks in these parties and merge with them
> and their immediate struggles in hopeful anticipation that "history" will
> someday turn them in an anticapitalist and even revolutionary direction, or
> d) form small harmless play groups outside the current mass parties which
> claim the mantle of the Bolsheviks, IWW, etc. but have none of the
> influence, face any of the challenges, or run any of the risks which
> confronted the revolutionary left of previous generations.
>



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