On Feb 5, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> Agreed. It's certainly better that more and more people are
> associating
> socialism with Sweden rather than East Germany. The line between
> quasi-social democratic politics of the left-wing of mainstream
> liberals and
> democratic socialism is simply that that latter advocates structural
> change.
> This shows there is an audience for such a politics, if only the
> left got
> its act together and decided to start building an opposition movement.
> Without a party with the working class is everything and with one it
> is
> everything. I'm all for the strategy Fletcher lays out at the end
> of this
> speech (minute 18ish):
> http://theactivist.org/blog/its-time-for-the-left-to-get-serious
I've got an interview with Fletcher on this topic in the can for my next radio show. Not on WBAI, alas, but on KPFA tomorrow morning and on the web shortly thereafter.