At 11:40 AM 5/25/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Frankly, it looks like I'm going to vote for Ralph Nader. Lesser of two evils arguments (in the US) always end up avoiding the recognition that the Dems are a positively malignant, rather than an insufficiently good, force. They are the graveyard of lots of progressive thought and movement, and institutional method of binding potential radicals to the status quo. As Marx said, "The more a dominant class is able to absorb the best people from the dominated classes, the more solid and dangerous is its rule" (Capital, vol. 3, p. 736 of the Vintage/NLB edition). Here's a material way in which that relates to Nader. It seems that one reason that Nader won't campaign is that he's afraid it would alienate his Public Citizen constituency (we'll leave the trial lawyers out of it). If he ran, PC contributors would view him as a spoiler - a spoiler being someone who prevents Clinton's re-election - and take revenge with their checkbooks. Though I have some reservations about Nader - for one, he's pretty anti-union, and for another, too pro-nationalist - his candidacy could blow open U.S. politics. Because of this hold of the Dems, Nader is inhibited from running. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
