[lbo-talk] Re: Re: Cole: Iranian public very friendly towards US

Jim Straub rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 13:04:06 PST 2007


Irrelevancy being something of which you have professional, intimate familiarity with, I am inclined to take your predictions of it seriously.


> Those leftists committed as a matter of principle to engagement in
> presidential politics must, of course, hold dogmatically to the
> existence of substantial diffrences within the capitalist class. For
> example, LRS, after its more or less triumphant participation in the
> Jackson campaign in '88 spent its closing days looking for other
> candidates to support -- thus leading to the argument advanced by
> Chicago comrades that Daley represented the "progressive" wing of the
> bourgeosie. Determination to take a position in major-party electoral
> politics is a long slippery slope into irrrelevancy.
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