Roger Rashi - Québec solidaire: Building a Left to the North of the Behemoth

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N.Beltov N.Beltov's picture
Roger Rashi - Québec solidaire: Building a Left to the North of the Behemoth
genstrike

It is an interesting article, and it does raise some interesting points, but I'm concerned about these "left-of-the-left formations" essentially replicating the left formations they were created partially in response to (ie: what's to stop a movement like QS to turn into a party like the NDP in a couple decades?), and how they will deal with the inevitable tensions arising from trying to build a new left, especially one which is explicity anti-capitalist while placing such importance on electoral activity.  History has shown that people committed to radical social change are often fleeced by political parties.  That said, I'm not sure if I would mind a "Manitoba Solidaire" given how crappy the other three major parties are here.

N.Beltov N.Beltov's picture

Nick Ternette has retired from politics. Maybe someone else needs to fill his rather large shoes.

 

Edited to add: Jesus, that's a bad joke. Nick recently lost both his legs. mea culpa.

genstrike

N.Beltov wrote:

Nick Ternette has retired from politics. Maybe someone else needs to fill his rather large shoes.

If you're suggesting me, I'm nowhere near old enough or crotchety enough (yet?) to fill that those shoes Wink

Jacob Richter

I posted the same article on RevLeft, but I'm afraid Solidaire is another "bourgeois workers' party" in the making, currently a "petit-bourgeois worker party" for not having as its non-communist goals "the formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat."