[Marxism] An analysis of the DP convention that works better

[Joaquin Bustelo]

Sartesian writes: "Nothing of the like has ever happened, will ever happen
with the Democratic party. 'Entry' there is at best popular frontism, which
is just a rest stop on the road to capitulation."

I realize this is a side issue, but I believe looking at things this way
obscures more than it clarifies. 

"Entry" by whom into the Democratic Party?

Certainly not by working people who already in their majority look towards
the Democrats, nor by any independent political organization that represents
even a sliver of the working masses, for there is no such beast in the U.S.
today. 

So the issues that confront us have to do with whether/how masses of people
might begin BREAKING with bourgeois politics, not how an already existing if
incipient or partial break is being channeled back into the two-party
system. On this, I think the things Fred has raised are much more useful to
consider than schemas about popular fronts violently ripped from their
social and political home, teleported across time and space, and dumped onto
a political reality that has very little in common with those Trotsky was
addressing.

Joaquin