[lbo-talk] Naomi Klein Goes Daft

[Simon Ward]

It can't help that electioneering requires more and more money. Almost by 
definition, a radical agenda isn't going to attract those with money - those 
with a hefty stake in the ruling system - and any candidate operating from 
within either of the main parties isn't going to run without a money-raising 
machine.

As if that wasn't enough, it seems also that the vast majority on the US, 
and in other first world countries, see a solution to their personal 
economic woes in an improvement in the status quo. You ask the average 
worker what will improve his lot and he'll opt for jobs rather than a 
radical shift in capital ownership.

Should it surprise any on this list that the Democratic Party is not a house 
of radicals?

Simon


> Why is the DP the graveyard of radical political movements? Could it
> be that once such movements try to get beyond their initial
> ideological or regional base and break onto the national scene, they
> just can't make the transition? Is that really the fault of the DP,
> or of trying to make radical politics broadly popular in a rather
> conservative country?
>
> Doug
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