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

On Aug 28, 9:57=A0am, stephen <srdiam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> nada wrote:
> > On Aug 27, 10:33 pm, stephen <srdiam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > I had understood you to favor exactly this policy, a socialist party
> > > running a non-socialist campaign, when you criticized the SWP's
> > > electoral campaigns.
> > No, I favor a broad based workers party that actually represents
> > workers and not just some small cadre group.
>
> Of course, but the question was how to get such a party, a question
> that today for socialists means what kind of campaigns a small cadre
> can run--or in general what a small cadre group should do--to move the
> working class toward forming a broad party. Doesn't your answer
> include running programmatically-non-socialist agitational electoral
> campaigns? And isn't the SO doing the same as the PFP, in the sense of
> a socialist cadre running a non-socialist electoral campaign?
>
> srd

All interesting questions actually. My answer certainly does include
this (probably overstating my previous case, I have participated in
some genuinely working class political campaigns like Mark Zola's SWP
run for Gov. of Pa in 1978) and in fact favors this so long that clear
working class perspective can develop out of such campaign, one that
openly sees the campaign AS a working class campaign and points for
the WHOLE class to be involved.

David