right. but I still don't get how Carrol's claims about the democratic party is where the potential for radicalism goes to die is an idealist position as you state.
^^^^^ CB: Isn't "radicalism" something Carrol would claim doesn't exist ? How is it he says it ? An abstraction ?
Anyway, radicalism is presumably the action of protest demonstrations, strikes, protest , protest, protest, boycott, protest. What else ? So, if "radicalism" didn't go into the DP and die, it would die standing on the street for 40 straight years protesting.
The notion that voting is not as important as protesting for the working class to attain class goals in the US system is extreme infantile leftism, very immature.