Time for agile leftists to shift and support Gore.

2000-12-11 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/06/00 10:51PM Actually, I think it is of historical interest only that Lenin changed his mind in changed circumstnces in 1918. The question is, does supporting the big bourgeoisie promote the cause in our circumstances? Neither Chris nor Charles have given any reason

Re: Time for agile leftists to shift and support Gore.

2000-12-11 Thread JKSCHW
What made you think I think that big bourgeois judges are OK? Actually, elections are exactly where I think that liberal political values belong--not "liberal" in the sense of Democratic party, which isn't even liberal in the New Deal-Great Society sense anymore, but in the sense of

Re: Re: Time for agile leftists to shift and support Gore.

2000-12-07 Thread Louis Proyect
It would be helpful if Louis Proyect could give the title and date of the article he is quoting since we may have a variety of editions. Chris Burford London The article is titled "Report to the extended central committee, April 1, 1918" Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list:

Time for agile leftists to shift and support Gore.

2000-12-07 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/06/00 07:46PM "For the good of the cause, the proletariat will always support not only the vacillating petty bourgeoisie but even the big bourgeoisie" - according to another self-styled communist - one who proposed a change in the name of their party from Social

Time for agile leftists to shift and support Gore.

2000-12-06 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/05/00 05:51PM How I love the PWW. For the 3 months leading up to the election, they did little but shill for Gore the Dems - the very people who brought us the bombing of Yugoslavia. Maybe it was *imperialism* that bombed Yugoslavia, and the Dems were just innocent

Re: Re: Time for agile leftists to shift and support Gore.

2000-12-06 Thread Chris Burford
At 16:53 06/12/00 -0500: Criticizing a party that calls itself Communist for supporting a centrist bourgeois politician is stale? I feel like I'm getting way out of touch. "For the good of the cause, the proletariat will always support not only the vacillating petty bourgeoisie but even

Re: Re: Re: Time for agile leftists to shift and support Gore.

2000-12-06 Thread Louis Proyect
"For the good of the cause, the proletariat will always support not only the vacillating petty bourgeoisie but even the big bourgeoisie" - according to another self-styled communist - one who proposed a change in the name of their party from Social Democratic to Communist, in 1917. He made

Re: Re: Re: Re: Time for agile leftists to shift and support Gore.

2000-12-06 Thread Justin Schwartz
Actually, I think it is of historical interest only that Lenin changed his mind in changed circumstnces in 1918. The question is, does supporting the big bourgeoisie promote the cause in our circumstances? Neither Chris nor Charles have given any reason to think so. --jks "For the good of

Re: Time for agile leftists to shift and support Gore.

2000-12-06 Thread Chris Burford
At 19:46 06/12/00 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote: "For the good of the cause, the proletariat will always support not only the vacillating petty bourgeoisie but even the big bourgeoisie" - according to another self-styled communist - one who proposed a change in the name of their party from