Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 19:31:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: "James F. Miller" <jamiller-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: Electoral politics


   In a recent message I commented on the need for working
people to break from capitalist politics. Louis came back:

>Louis: Hmmm. Now there was an African-American member of the Democratic
>Party Louis Stokes that the Militant was ready to endorse in the 1960s when he
>ran as an independent. He was liberal and bourgeois, wasn't he? How do you
>folks come up with these political calculations? Ouija board?

   I think Louis is feigning ignorance here. He really knows
a lot about the history of the SWP, but he often doesn't let
on how much he knows.
   Why did the SWP endorse Stokes? There is nothing in the
_Militant_, or in SWP documents, about ouija boards. There
is a political argument. I think Louis already has a rough
idea about what that argument was.
   Unfortunately, however, he doesn't want to discuss it with
me, so I'll say no more on this point.

Jim Miller
Seattle
jamiller-AT-igc.apc.org


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