On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 11:15 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > What are YOU and the other progressives going to do? Swear off your > version of footsie with the Democrats? Will that mean the "greater evil" > has gone away? I'll bet she'll be quaking in her boots when you tell her > she owes you.
Good question, and Michael M. would be justified in throwing it back at you: What are YOU going to do to get Kamala Harris quaking in her boots besides sending incendiary emails to Marxmail? It hardly needs stating that Harris' role, like that of all her predecessors, will be to serve the corporations. What other function has the chairperson of the executive committee of the ruling class? But at least if he chooses to do so Micheal M. and others like him will be able to collaborate with the organized left in the party to try to exert some countervailing pressure. Whatever its shortcomings, the DSA and others on the DP left are a more important constituency than that represented by the Greens and the other irrelevant groups wandering about in the political wilderness. If discontent with the party's direction again swells its ranks, the party leadership will have to pay attention to the DP left as it did during the Sanders insurgency. That also won't bring "victory to the masses"anytime soon , but it is at least engagement with the more politically conscious core of union, party, and movement activists who consistently vote Democratic. The other option - unfortunately too much in evidence among a few active contributors on this list - is cosplay masking abstention from the class struggle as it manifests itself today. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33009): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33009 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109066560/21656 -=-=- 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/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
