[Marxism] In Defense of Harrington and American

[Mark Lause]

The entire notion that you can generalize one "solution" from its
defining historical, material context to some broadly applicable
formula is flawed.  More so if you're talking about something from a
century ago.  Still more so so, it it's something that failed at that
time, as did Menshevism.

Let us take Harrington and his admirers at their word, though, in that
his Democratic Party strategy represented their version of Menshevism
applied to the US.   Let their strategy stand or fall on its own
merits.  In the interests of a fair trial, let's start with the heyday
of Harrington's current and ask whether the self-dissolution of that
current of American socialism into the Democratic Party has moved the
Democrats farther left?

This is at least the third time I've posed this question, but it's
proponents have pretended that the question's not been asked and
doesn't need to be addressed.

This is because, by any materialist measure, the most prevalent
feature in the history of the Democratic Party since the 1970s has
been its steady march to the right.

ML