[Marxism] In Defense of Harrington and American

[Carrol Cox]

Erik Carlos Toren wrote:
> 
> And I might add that at a county level, at least in my experience in Texas, the DP and the RP do **not** even exist as political parties between elections. They only come "back to life" once the group of self-identified party members political elite put the money back in the machine.

This is pretty much the case everywhere I believe. There simply is no
such thing as "belonging" to the DP or the RP. *No* contacts are made by
'participating' in DP politics. Nothing happens. REALLY. Nothing happens
when one tries to participate except one sits through a very boring
monthly meeting with vbery boring people. One NEVER meets any of the
"Rank-and-File" because there is NO SUCH THING as a Rank-and-File. There
are only a few bureaucrats, some city or county officials of the party
in 'power' in that county, and that is it. My dorect experience was om
cpmmectopm with the 1988 Jackson campaign, which Jan & I launched inthis
Congressional district. By accident (a friend wrote my name in) I got
elected precinct captain or whatever in my precinct, but after the
primary I attended one or two county meetings and let it go. What a
yawn.

Carrol