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

nada <dwaltersMIA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> On Aug 30, 10:35 am, "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.
>>
>>  That sounds incurably two-stagist.  
>>
>>  It's as if Ross surviews a large and fertile field in a good
>> climate: 
>>
>>  "Yes, we could grow some good potatoes.  
>>
>>  "But first, we need an ample supply of potato bugs."  
>>
>> - 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
> 

Which would be correct. The whole traditional Trotskyist strategy in the 
US was predicated on the struggle to build a labor party ... a fight 
which is not necessary up here North of the Lakes, because there is one. 
Our fight here is to keep it away from Blairism, a fight which those of 
us in the Socialist Caucus have been pursuing for years now with some 
success.

--
Ross in Toronto