Louis Proyect wrote: > Meanwhile I read this infuriating shit in the NY Times and fully expect the > ABB > contingent to tell us why we should vote for Hillary in the next election.
I didn't know that W was running for re-reelection... But now that it's mentioned, I appreciate Louis' excellent tact in raising this issue again. Looking back and re-opening the past divisions of the left is exactly the type of exercise that will yield us the highest political payoff. Let us concentrate our political energy on that. We need to scratch these wounds until we turn them into gangrene. Under the impression that superficial radicalism of the kind displayed by anti-ABBers in 2004 is a serious obstacle for the advancement of the left, I am *not* ready to move on. I don't care whether people may realign themselves politically in the current and upcoming battles. I'll only be pleased and ready to leave the past behind when Louis (and others who think like him) abandon their views about the past, repent, and *publicly* admit that they were dead wrong in supporting the pathetic candidacy of Ralph Nader (or, worse, called people to abstain from voting) and that we, the ABBers, were absolutely correct. Julio
