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In a message dated 11/18/2004 2:16:25 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>>AFTER THE ELECTIONS: WHAT NEXT? Mark Dudzic, Labor Party National Organizer<<< ------------------------------------------- <<<i too received this e-mail, here was my reply: political parties run candidates for office...>>> Comment
Valid and very true. "(P)olitical parties run candidates for office" . . . at least in this party of the world.
The Labor Party - which I ideologically support, reminds me of my youngest daughter.
At age 20, she is studying to become a nurse and recently was recently hired as a CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant. She has difficulty getting to work everyday because of transportation and needs a care. She cannot buy a car on her own because she has not worked long enough. When we send money to buy a car it is spent on the rent and clothes to stabilize her life so that she can go to work and make enough to buy a car.
I had suggested to the wife and daughter two years ago that Ebonie get a job in the Casino because she is actually an attractive girl, or rather young lady. I suggested a waitress because they make more than Blackjack dealers. This path of development was rejected and got my face slapped.
The Labor Party cannot run candidates for office because it does not have enough infrastructure to conduct a political campaign or host a national candidate. It does not have a big enough infrastructure because it does not have enough organizers to organize people on the basis of building an infrastructure that is big enough to host a national campaign. The people with the real talents to build an infrastructure big enough to grow an infrastructure big enough to host a national campaign are in the main organizers in the unions and/or politically gravitate around unionism in various forms.
It gets tricky and things cannot be solved on the basis of theoretical insight but history and ones understanding of the historical progression and then doing what comes next. The industrial union movement erupted and spilled over as an independent movement from roots in the craft unions and their organizations.
Who was the guy that socked the other guy in the jaw and solidified the spilt in the craft unions and the emergence of the CIO as an independent form of unionism? John L, Lewis?
Although it is theoretically incorrect to say "from nothing comes nothing" n politics it is absolutely correct. In theory - philosophy, "nothing" is that which sits outside of human perception and becomes perceptible on the basis of emergence, since nothing is not perceivable and cannot be anything except "nothing."
In politics, "nothing" - no real Labor Party as an organization that runs candidates, can only become "something" based of the real human material at hand and this material is to be found - located, where? On the Internet? The Internet is a communications form that allows the real human material to interact and coordinate.
At this stage of the social movement - which might change in five or ten years, it is not a flight of fancy to state that the only direction open to the enlargement and real formation of the Labor Party is the acceleration of the split within the trade union movement and a section of them going over to the goals and ideas of the Labor Party.
Now the people that are going to influence the politics, ideology and goals of the Labor Party are those that are on the ground floor and part of the process. And have the ability to win the vote or the confidence of the members based on their articulations of what people desire and how they think things out.
Now Ebonie cannot get the car she needs to achieve a certain stability because the stability cannot be achieved to get the car and my dough keeps getting spent on the stability instead of the car that she asked for.
(My wife is crazy and along/alone with a generation of women named our daughter "black" . . . can you imagine the Anglo American workers naming their daughters "Ivory." I be laughing my ass off because things be funny. My wife said Ebonie did not mean "just" black, although it means that, because there is no "y" on the end of her name and instead, an "i.e." I agreed because Stalin's article on liguistists did not help me on any level.)
I say to the wife the solution to the Labor Party . . . I mean Ebonie, resides in the widening spilt in the trade union movement because it is the most organized detachment of the working class at this moment in history.
I mean . . . Ebonie is in need of another daddy, with perhaps a tad bit more sugar. This was stated because something to drive a political process and organization you must have something outside of yourself or that that makes you what you are.
I stated this as a metaphor and the wife did not speak to me for a week. She said it was not a metaphor and started hitting me in the back. I say, "why the hell you keep hitting me in the back?"
She says, "because you need something outside of your self to make you come to your senses and experience a different level of growth."
Then I said "wait a minute baby, nothing comes from nothing and one must know where the "something" is and we be going about this the wrong way because we keep getting stability based on the here and now and no car."
She says, "this ain't the damn Labor Party but our daughter."
I say, "Bullshit. I'm doing the Labor and she goes to the Party."
Well, I should of not said that.
To go from nothing to something means knowing what you are doing and looking at and where you are trying to drive to or go. The Labor Party leaps forward based on the splitting in the trade union movement and everyone can accelerate this split or take part in it by doing what every you can.
The reason I have not been actively organizing for the Labor Party is because they do not have any candidates. The reason they do not run any candidates . . . . is because Ebonie does not have a car."
The reason Ebonie does not have a car, with the money I keep sending is because of the rent and stability needed to run candidates. The sugar daddy . . . I mean trade unions have the money and manpower.
Then some damn trade union bureaucrat hits me in the back of the head.
I asked him, "who in the hell do you think you are? My wife?"
Melvin P.
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