Re: (minor corrections) Re: P&F: electoral death of pink socialism

On Aug 26, 9:38=A0am, nada <dwalters...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> My opposition to Nader's candidacy does NOT have anything to do with a
> commitment to socialism. I don't even sup****t the old SWP campaigns
> from Dobbs/Carslon's 1948 campaigns upward, it's a whole different
> discussion. I think "socialist" campaigns are about as good as "All
> Vietnam Should Go Communist" and other ultra-leftist zero-impact
> nonsense. I'm for working class campaigns but against the narrow, self-
> defeating, totally substititionist campaigns used "to Build the
> Party". I think they are fundementally non-Marxist (not
> "anti-"Marxist) but abstracted from any real working class struggle.
> It's a different debate...but I bet you didn't see that one coming?!

1. Then what do you think of Cannon's socialist defense at trial? (If
socialist propaganda is empty in elections, it seems as empty at
trial.)

2. What was different about the SWP's campaigns before 1948?

srd