P&F: electoral death of pink socialism

John Holmes wrote:

> Kind of like the Peace and
> Freedom Party here in California. Remember when Benjamin Spock, the
> baby doctor, ran for President on the Peace and Freedom ticket? He got
> a lot of votes, mostly from people who thought he was the Spock from
> Star Trek, and wondered about why he didn't have pointy ears.

 That campaign was cited as a positive example by Louis Proyect.  His
other favorite was the old SWP/US "Bill of Rights for working people"
gimmick (our founding bourgeois fathers merely overlooked the
question of offering state power to the proletariat, don'cha know).

 The "Peace and Freedom" party still has ballot status in California.
Although P&F claims to be socialist (in a thoroughly non-Marxian
sort of way), they chose their 2008 Presidential ballot candidate this
past week:   Ralph "I want to save capitalism" Nader got more delegates
than ostensible socialists Gloria La Riva and Brian Moore combined.
(McKinney, already on the ballot for Green Party, came in fourth).

- David Stevens