| User Blox 4 |
|
- Put stuff here
|
Barack Obama  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
|
popular front
Wed Dec 09, 2009 at 21:09:36 PM MST
|
( - promoted by Jay Stevens)
In Dec.1920, German steelworkers,acting on the initiative of revolutionary socialists, published a letter with "transitional" demands that not only embraced issues of bread and pay but the initial steps towards worker's power. The idea was one of a "popular front" between those who felt capitalism could be reformed (the unions, social democrats) and those who didn't and was as controversial then as it is now.
The politically radical activists I currently work with have tried this strategy in Montana for some time now,joining in "progressive" coalitions over issues such as changes in foreign policy, Employee Free Choice Act, Health Care reform and environmental issues. The consistent pattern has been that "progressives" compromise amazingly fast on values for political (Democratic Party) considerations. At each juncture, say from Single Payer to Public Option to The Trigger radicals point to the rationality of their critique only to hear "progressives" say : "That's how the game is played" or "We want to be taken seriously" or "Your vision is too utopian".
|
|
There's More...
:: (22
Comments, 171 words in story)
|
|
|
|
|
| Poll |
| Voting. Useful or not? |
|
|
|
Results
|
|
