[Peace-discuss] "It's Their Party"

[David Green]

Or as the more radicalized version of Lesley Gore would have said, "You don't own me!" 

    On Thursday, July 28, 2016 8:46 AM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
 
 

 And the chorus of the ‘60s pop song is “...and I'll cry if I want to... You would cry too if it happened to you!” 
We just didn’t know then that it was about the Democrats.


On Jul 28, 2016, at 8:31 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

 It’s Their Party

  
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It’s Their Party
 A generation ago, socialists and civil rights activists tried to transform the Democratic Party. Why did they fail?  |  |

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"The contemporary left should aspire to do what the realignment strategy tried to accomplish — to recognize the different interests that exist within capital, and leverage them to our own ends. To be successful in this endeavor, however, and to avoid the sorry end of postwar realignment, it will have to organize on the basis of two truths that Harrington and his co-thinkers ultimately forgot.
First, working-class insurgency is the only force that renders the contradictions between capitals dynamic and capable of serving the Left. Second, whatever power labor manages to assert against capital, whether on the shop floor, in a capitalist party like the Democrats, or even in an actual social-democratic party, will always be partial, and subject to dismemberment as soon as capital is able. While Harrington’s intellectual work stresses this, the project he helped built did not reflect it."_______________________________________________
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