[Marxism] Democratic Party Politics

[Louis Proyect]

>Whenever I tabled for a Green Party candidate, it always seemed 
>easier to get a hearing from an independent or even, in a few cases, 
>a Republican of a libertarian orientation, than a Democrat, 
>particularly a progressive one. SR

This is the whole point. We are not really interested in persuading 
rank-and-filers in the DP to leave. We are much more interested in 
building our party that can serve as a pole of attraction. I was 
skeptical about the Greens until I attended a nearly SRO rally for 
Ralph Nader at Felt Forum during the 2000 campaign. I was really 
impressed by the enthusiasm of the crowd, its youth and the militancy 
of Nader's speech. The success of the Greens of course was its 
undoing. The DP was intent on killing it, while the fifth column 
inside it was determined to neuter it. I am absolutely convinced that 
the mounting contradictions of American society will produce the 
objective conditions that will make a third party possible. It is 
just a matter of time.