On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > "With all the corporate tools running around Congress, Sanders is one of > the few people with a pretty good record -- at least relative to the > others. Nobody expects him to lead a revolution or to bring the financial > megaliths down the signs. If nothing else, he can help move the > conversation into something resembling rationality." > -------- > The objection to him is that he is an utterly ineffective reformist. We do > need reforms; campaigning for Sanders hurts the possibility of achieving > even minimal reforms.
Oh now, THAT is the objection? That he is "ineffective"? It is sort of an ironic accusation to make against a successful politician - a sitting US Senator for God's sake! - who has managed to not sell out to corporations and billionaires. So he is "ineffective" compared to what? Some pathetic attempt to create a Mass Movement that is going nowhere? > The DP is THE major barrier to any mass movement for serious reform; it > drains off the desperately needed cadre for social movements and union > revivification! > I think we need a name for this theory. How about the "Lump of Progressivism"? As in there is only a finite supply of progressivism available in a society. If Sanders or Warren use up all that scarce supply, it will be crowding out the Revolution! -raghu.
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