[Marxism] Stan Goff, Bill Fletcher and the 2-party system

[Austin, Andrew]

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Andrew wrote:
>What's your point?  My point is only this: that the astonishment among 
>some Marxists expressed at other Marxists who advocate voting Democrat 
>at this point in history on the assumed grounds that a good Marxist 
>would never support bourgeois candidates is completely misplaced.  Only

>an ideologue would a priori reject voting for bourgeois candidates.

Then how do you explain the fact that the Socialist International ran
its own candidates and never supported bourgeois candidates? And how do
you explain the refusal of Comintern parties from 1917 until 1935 to
support bourgeois candidates? There must have been compelling reasons,
right? Why doesn't Lenin urge Communists to consider voting for
bourgeois candidates when he wrote "Ultraleftism, an Infantile
Disorder"?

I still don't get your point.  I am talking about 2006 not 1917.