Thank you, Charlie, for bringing the Dan La Botz article to our attention. It is shockingly bad. La Botz criticizes O'Brien for appearing at the Republican convention, but he never mentions the fact that O'Brien has legitimized the bigotry of all sorts that is essential to today's Republican Party. O'Brien legitimized it by ignoring it, pretending it doesn't exist, pretending it is not the central element of MAGAism and today's Republican Party. It would be like going to a KKK rally and giving a speech against the employers, while the KKK is planning a lynching. And La Botz ignores this absolutely central element. He compounds the betrayal of O'Brien. What La Botz does is similar to what the great leader and socialist Eugene Debs did. For all his greatness, Debs made a huge mistake in thinking that socialists and the workers movement could ignore racism as an issue in and of itself. It was understandable that Debs would make that mistake back in 1903. For La Botz to do so in 2024 is nothing but opportunism at its worst. And some "Marxists" see La Botz as a national expert!
As for the UAW's Sean Fain: No, we never could have expected more from him than cozying up to Biden and the Democrats. I opposed this in the past, as opposed to La Botz, who justified it. But let's get real here: at least the Democrats are not infiltrated through and through with outright fascists and QAnon lunatics. John Reimann -- *“Science and socialism go hand-in-hand.” *Felicity Dowling Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31194): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31194 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107362304/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
