Re: marxism-digest V1 #6545

> Many comrades inside the old Communist Labor Party resolutely opposed work in 
> the electoral arena. Their opposition to the "Vote Communist Campaign" was 
> not sectarian or a "sign" of "bad" ideology or wrong politics. Rather, this 
> opposition was a political trend expressing a material reality in the working 
> class. Nor did this "opposition political trend" become a faction or the faction 
> would have been expelled in mass.  Ten times as many people showed up to do 
> volunteer work for the "Vote Communist Campaign" as those opposed to it within 
> the organization, and very large amounts of money was raised from every segment 
> of the population. 

I think abstentionist parties are cool (I'm getting ready to join the SLP,
if they'll have me, as they're basically the American equivalent of the KAPD 
today).  But I'm a little confused: was this "Vote Communist" campaign a 
(new) CLP campaign, or one opposed by them?  And if you were a member of 
that group, I'd personally like to know more about them - I'm pretty 
interested in the original CLP (which as you may know was the one *not* 
active in Detroit, and merged with the Detroit-based Worker's Party to form 
the CPUSA way back when) but I don't really know too much about the latter 
one except that they were active in the 70s. 

Furthermore, what is your opinion of "tendencies" (Johnson-Forest etc.)?  Do 
you consider that an acceptable alternative to democratic-centralist 
dynamics, or is party-building a better choice? 

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