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

On Aug 30, 10:35=A0am, "David Stevens" <passchenda...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Ross:
>
> > All of this is not exactly in my line of experience, you see, as I'm
> > used to doing electoral politics within the New Democratic Party,
which
> > is still a genuinely labor-based social-democratic party. We don't
have
> > to build one.
>
> =A0That sounds incurably two-stagist. =A0
>
> =A0It's as if Ross surviews a large and fertile field in a good climate:
>
> =A0"Yes, we could grow some good potatoes. =A0
>
> =A0"But first, we need an ample supply of potato bugs." =A0
>
> - David Stevens

"two-stagist"? We're not talking about the Democratic Revolution
growing over into a socialist one, we're talking about working class
independent political action (I think). Nothing to do with stages,
everything to do with tactics.

David