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On 1/24/20 8:55 AM, Michael Meeropol wrote:
Sorry, Louis --- I agree 100% with the argument in this letter. Working for the Green Party Is taking the gamble that Trump is SO LITTLE "worse" than the Democratic opponent (and let's grant the worst case scenario that BIDEN --- or -- gasp (!!) BLOOMBERG --- is the Democratic nominee) would not make the difference in terms of long term destruction of the planet via global warming --- Let's assume that there is a 1% chance that Trump vs. generic Dem will make the difference between the survival of the planet and some (better than nothiing) amelioration --
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League, London, March 1850
Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed.
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