Louis Proyect wrote: > The question is not coming up with "truly progressive" candidates. In many > ways, Al Sharpton is to the left of Ralph Nader. The real issue is > independence from the ruling class.
Yes, but isn't this independence most efficiently acheived by wresting the existing infrastructure from the hands of the ruling class. Since no third party has been widely successful in the last hundred or so years, these grass roots movements are in the end futile. Sure people like Wellstone have shown that it can work, but, call me a Fabian, if we are going to change things we have to take small steps within the structure as it is. The Democratic party, bourgeois or not, can be reformed. I understand that historically and presently it is not the bastion of the common man as it claims. But instead of trying to destroy it or replace it, why not change it? Benjamin
