My knowledge of US politics failed me here... I was not aware that it is non-membership.
That sucks indeed. You can put a cross through the word Democratic and the strategy of entryism in the US... On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 05:09 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > > You can't reach the masses through the DP. As Mark pointed out, it is not > a membership party like British Labour. You don't "join" anything. You > register as a Democrat, a Republican, Independent or one of the 3rd > parties like the Greens or the Libertarians. That entitles you to vote for > their candidates every 2 or 4 years. I am a registered Green but don't > "belong" to it since, like the bourgeois parties, it is mostly an > electoral machine. The late Bruce Dixon, Howie Hawkins and people like me > and Mark Lause would like it to turn into a membership party even as > loosely knit as the DSA but it's an uphill battle. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6851): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6851 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80967958/21656 Mute #poll-notice:https://groups.io/g/marxmail/mutehashtag/poll-notice -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
