[lbo-talk] me on Kuttner's latest

[Campaign for Peace and Democracy]

Adolph is a very perceptive fellow, with much good to offer, but I don't 
think we can cede the electoral ground to the two corporate parties. We 
can't leave the driving to them while we confine ourselves to building 
movements on the ground, important though that is.

At 05:13 PM 1/11/2008 -0500, you wrote:


>On Jan 11, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Campaign for Peace and Democracy wrote:
>
> > IMHO, the question is not whether the Democrats are marginally
> > better than the Republicans: they generally are, and that's likely
> > to be
> > the case all the way to fascism. The issue is whether we, and
> > progressive
> > social movements generally, conclude from this "betterness" that we
> > should
> > back the Democrats.
>
>Adolph Reed finally settled the matter for me: if people want to vote
>for Dems, and even agitate for them, fine; if they don't, that's fine
>too. I'm not going to get excited either way. I think most political
>agitation these days should be, as the old jargon goes,
>extraparliamentary. Election campaigns are kind of fun, like sporting
>events for political junkies, but they rarely change the world.
>
>Doug
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