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

[S. Artesian]

No doubt, working for the Obama campaign will provide you with access to 
hundreds of thousands of others working for the Obama campaign; allow you to 
make thousands of phone calls asking for support of Obama; grant you hours 
of street time recruiting signatures on petititons for Obama.

You can be gay, feminist, trade unionist, environmentalist.  No doubt. And 
you can talk about all those other issues.  You sure can.  Because you will 
keeping all that discussion squarely in the framework of the platform of the 
Democratic party.  As long as you keep the discussion to trade union rights, 
global warming, justice-- you can.  But step away from the platform.   Give 
your thousands of contacts your deep down Marxist analysis, see how much 
phone time, street time, committee time you get then.  On your way out the 
door.

Millions of people did all that type of work for McGovern in 1972; and that 
with the added benefit of McGovern's explicitly anti-war positon.  However, 
that electioneering  coincided with a decline in the anti-war movement. 
That electioneering was part of the decline in the anti-war movement.

How can you talk about Iraq given Obama's consistent equivocation?  How do 
you campaign for Obama and respond to somebody's question about Afghanistan? 
How do you talk to Iraq Veterans Agains the War?

How do you work inside the Democratic party and not support Democratic 
candidates for office like-- for example-- Pelosi?  Feinstein?  Richard M. 
Daley? Schumer?  Clinton?  any number of Kennedys.

By whispering?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marvin Gandall" <marvgandall at videotron.ca>
To: <sartesian at earthlink.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] An analysis of the DP convention that works better