On 3/16/07, Mark Lause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
An important start...which should have been done in 2004, if not 2000 or 1996...would have been for a group like Solidarity or the ISO to have organized a socialist current within the campaign...locally, statewide and nationally.
Even if it had ended up only the ISO and Solidarity, it would have been better. It would have been really great if such a thing had come about in 2000, for 2004 turned out to be the key year in the unraveling of the Iraq War in hindsight. The way thing are going, once again neither the Democrats nor the Republicans will nominate even a nominal peace candidate (as just about every nominatable is committed to keeping some or all or more of the troops in Iraq), 2008 will be also important.
The very existence of such a thing would have pushed non-socialists and even those willing to do deals with the two-party system to have worked harder.
That's what I think. How to pull that off without falling into electoralism is a tough question. At this point, reviving action in the streets has to take precedence. -- Yoshie
