Re: SSSP session on Democratic Party, comment

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>Exposing aspects of capitalist injustice certainly does open the door to
>reformism or intellectual gadflyism without praxis -- both of which could
>undermine the struggle for deeper social transformation. On the other hand,
>one could argue that merely changing the structure of the election laws
>similarly only plays into the reformism that asserts that social injustice
>and inequality can be achieved without confronting the class nature of the
>state, and the state itself, and the class (capitalist) which controls the
>state.

        I'm confused about the sentence above. Do you mean, "one could argue
that merely changing the structure of the election laws
>similarly only plays into the reformism that asserts that social justice
>and equality can be achieved"?

        All I can suggest is to read that person's article (the web address)
I passed dealing with the effects of government structure on the urban
level, which belie an argument about the economic essentialism of the
government, the argument you are posing. Come on, I thought the state was
'brought back in' about twenty years ago, at least? ;-)


Regards,


Mark Whitaker
University of Wisconsin-Madison