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Yes, the DPL (Democratic Party Left) is likely in a full court press against the Occupy tendency. Happily one of the strong points of Occupy was its "organic" (structured, ideological) hostility to the two capitalist parties. In this case Occupy is a direct effect of the "Obama betrayal" of 2008. The DPL never gives up on its one-note "tactic" - because it is actually a strategy that assumes that the U.S. working class will always be too pro-capitalist to ever manifest itself as a "class for itself" in independent political form. The Occupy tendency is a dire threat to the strategy, and therefore to the existence of the DPL, and must be co-opted at all costs. -Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- ...We in the Young Communist League USA look forward to working with all of you to push the U.S. government to reach a cooperative, rather than imperialist, approach to foreign policy around the world. That said the fight for jobs and for real solutions must include reelecting Obama in 2012. If youth, whether in the Occupy movement or elsewhere, do not want to work with any politician, then being absent from the political process is only allowing the ultra-right wing to build power.... http://cpusa.org/u-s-young-people-show-their-discontent-with-capitalism/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cpusaMain+%28CPUSA+Front+Page%29 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
