Despite being written by the
Despite being written by the ISO (the American version of the SWP but now split) this long piece from 2004 and the Bush/Kerry election is actually quite good and much of it still applies today. It challenges Chomsky’s case for voting for the lesser evil. http://www.internationalsocialist.org/pdfs/democrats_lesserevilism.pdf Its conclusion, I think, echos our own position:- “…The task of socialists should be to break illusions in the capitalist system and its politicians—not to strengthen those illusions. It follows that the first task of socialists in the U.S. today is to reject any support for Democratic candidates, no matter how “left-liberal” their rhetoric sounds. But once socialists reject the Democratic Party, they must pose a clear socialist alternative.”