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> The means of struggle (the "weapon") that the Obama "enthusiasts" are
> proposing are electoral politics, the Democratic Party, and the Obama
> campaign. Weapons drawn from society as it is. So, what are the
> means of struggle that the skeptics are proposing to the rest of us?
> And how are those means of struggle mutually exclusive with electoral
> politics, the Democratic Party, and the Obama campaign?
These are good questions. The strategic problem here is that electoral politics is not just a "weapon" that the working class can use to further their interests; it is also (and more often!) a weapon used against them by the very Democratic pols they supported (Clinton is the obvious example). Thus I'm not convinced that electoral politics is an effective "weapon drawn from society as it is" for the working class.
That said, McCain is pretty fucking scary, so I probably end up supporting the Obama campaign. But I have no illusions that this will be some artful strategy to further working class interests.
Other means of struggle? For one, expand existing socialist forms of production (e.g., open source software, public libraries, child care co-ops). As I noted a while ago, think of these small socialist projects as indigenous plants growing up through the cracks in the concrete.
Miles