[lbo-talk] Can a "Socialist" Strategy be Defined Abstractly, was Chavez's socialist world vision

Jay Clinton jayclinton88 at yahoo.ie
Fri Jun 18 12:02:43 PDT 2010


Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:


> I'd like to think it's realistic to


> say that the goal of socialists is to form an opposition

movement *outside


> of government* in order to build toward majoritarian
support.

...This means rejecting Luxemburgist "mass strike" schemes,

and Carrol Cox responded:
>

Why? What _is_ your movement going to be doing? Writing ferocious letters to the local paper?

Having read some of his Bhaskar's collected works online, his approach is to say we should build the movement as he describes it, outside of electoral politics, which movement will not oppose democrats until we get that "majority" (which unfortunately can never

arise - I'll assume he disagrees).

Boils down to the Bill Fletcher approach of asserting you are anti-capitalist  while  'critically supporting' (or at least not opposing) Democrats, and opposing any "naive" efforts to try to find a path not leading to the cliff.



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