[Marxism] Last minute stab by rightist Dobson against Obama

[David Thorstad]

Judging from the rank reformism rampant on this list, I take Walter's 
advice here as further confirmation of how far some former Marxists have 
sunk into liberalism. The very idea that the highly undemocratic 
"choice" offered by the criminal American ruling class merits a vote for 
an open warmonger like His Saintliness suggests a surrender that's right 
up there with the "renegade Kautsky."  If even "progressive" bourgeois 
candidates like McKinney and Nader are not on the Georgia ballot, 
presumably no socialists are either. In that case, why not write in 
Betty Boop? Do you really believe it matters one iota how you vote? It 
isn't just write-ins that are not counted. When I was SWP banch 
organizer in Minneapolis eons ago, a Democrat party district leader 
called to report that in her rural district, both she and her sister 
voted for the SWP, but the SWP candidate got no votes in their district.
    This discussion shows how irrelevant most of the American left has 
become. Even urging a vote for a top capitalist oinker? Till now, I 
would have said, "Say it ain't so." Clearly, it is.
David
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Walter Lippmann wrote:
> JOAQUIN BUSTELO asked:
> What would comrades do next Tuesday in my shoes? And it has to be
> *consistent*: whatever I tell my neighbor or a Latino community meeting or
> Cynthia McKinney if she comes back has to be the truth, what I actually did
> November 4. I really don't know how to function any other way politically.
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> If McKinney is not on the ballot, you should vote for Obama.
> This is the real world, not an imaginary one. Do the right
> thing and contribute to the biggest possible defeat of the
> McCain-Palin-Bush trend in politics. Your individual vote
> isn't likely to matter much, but in the context of efforts
> to obstruct and deny voting rights, it's very important that
> you exercise your franchise and defend everyone's right to.
>
>
> Walter Lippmann
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