Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 16:57:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Subject: AUT: MN Governatorial "Populist" Burlesque (fwd)


Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:09:58 -0500
From: neil <74742.1651-AT-compuserve.com>
Subject: MN Governatorial "Populist" Burlesque


Gov. elect Ventura of the Perotista Reform Party 
 of MN is an ideal winner for the bourgeois rulers and
the system as a whole.  That is why the media 
of the rich is ecstatic.

The fact that he was a "union member" is hardly
something for union militants to brag about. It
is his party and class stand that are important to 
workers .
I have met all shades of political opinion in the
LA teachers union, mainly all one form  of bourgeois
politics or another --and that is the way the  unions
are supposed to function  in the present era of capitalism.
This is their political pitch to the owning class that
they want their members to be a loyal part of capitalism -and
most of them,  today, unfortunately still  are. 
Union workers , as do others do  stand for anything from the
positive --workers control of society,  to the  reactionary --white
supremacy and militarist rule,  and everything in between .

The Perotista  Reform party are mainly (not all) 
center-right Populists --in the demagoguery sense
of what this outfit claims to stand for. That is -
they , like the DP and RP, they  can say anything to garner
votes , then once in office the real money bags control
seeps out big time. Like others , these Reform  bureaucrats 
look out to further their careers and those of their hangers-on,
 and  pleasing the big  capitalists is the surest  way to do that
under the "democratic" system.


does anyone  here really think that Ventura, now engaging in
political burlesque and no longer the pugilistic type , and other
 "Perotistas" want to halt/fight  the bosses attacks on the workers
 livlihoods?
On the contrary, they want to be a part of the political state 
"legally" helping to carry them out--with a clever  "populist'
veneer. .

Neil



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