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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 12:10:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: louisgodena-AT-ids.net (Louis R Godena)
Subject: Re: M-I: Jesse Jackson  & reformism



>Actually, what revolutionary Marxist groupings have to do is provide the
>sort of brilliant analysis of the transportation industry that Jon
Flanders
>just came up with. You and Godena think that railing at Jesse Jackson on a
>Marxism list serves some useful purpose, but it doesn't. It is roughly the
>equivalent of sticking pins in a voodoo doll. Old Jesse won't feel a
thing.

The pages of *New Left Review*, *Race and Class*, and *Monthly Review* are
full of "brilliant analyses".  So what?  It doesn't amount to a hill of
beans if people aren't listening.  And they're not.  Jesse Jackson is a pimp
for the Democrat Party, just as Vernon Jordon is Clinton's personal pimp.
One procures bodies for votes, the other procures the same for sex. Neither
have much credibility with anyone, anymore.  Jesse Jackson got seven million
votes in 1988.  He'll be lucky to get 700,000 in year 2000, if he runs.  He,
of course, won't. 

So it is really not necessary to stick pins in dolls, is it?

What *is* necessary, in my view, is to point out the extent to which the
Western Left has absorbed the malfeasance and corruption of the capitalist
system, and to the extent which it has succumbed to the blandishments of
that system.  Of course, the mass of people already understand this.  It is
the Left itself which can't seem to figure it out.

Louis GE

 




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