[Marxism] "demo-green" paranoia and slander: in response to Craig Brozefsky

[mlause at cinci.rr.com]

The possibility of a "safe-state strategy" is implicit in any serious challenge to the duopoly.  It always has been and it always will be.  That's part of that political ecology I was discussing.

The point about 2004 was that Cobb's nomination was argued to the ranks on a safe-state strategy but on the assumption that the GPUS needed to nominate one of its own (as opposed to Nader) in order to build that party.  This--not the safe-state crap--sold the nomination to many of the party's core activists.  Most, I suspect, went with Nader-Camejo.  

So, too, the coherent, monolithic Demo-Green leadership is a hallucination.  If you break down the term to figure out what it means, it has so many different (and contradictory) trends that it would be misleading ourselves to see a common, coherent strategy.

Nothing demonstrates this more clearly than the failure of these "Demogreens" to advance a common position on the 2008 elections.  They don't even agree on the same candidate(s), much less upon a plan to sell the GPUS to Billary or O'Bomber.

But people are welcome to believe what they want, of course.

ML