From: Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM
Date: Tue May 24 2005 - 08:58:37 EDT
Re: [OPE-L] further response to John HollowayHi John: A quick question. Yesterday you wrote: > [...] Firstly, I do not support Lopez Obrador. I said I opposed his > exclusion (desafuero), a very different matter -- if all politicians > had been excluded, I would have been delighted, but obviously that > was not the case. Last Thursday (the 19th) you wrote: > I think that the reduction of poverty is desperately urgent, especially > and palpably in Latin America (elsewhere too, but more obviously here). > For that reason I would probably support any government that I thought > was seriously committed to achieving this. I marched against the exclusion > of López Obrador and I may possibly vote for him next year. At the same > time, I recognise that any government that does not seek to eliminate > capitalism will probably achieve very limited results in the reduction of > poverty and will be forced to take part in promoting conditions favourable > for the accumulation of capital, with all the very real violence that that entails. > If, then, I decide to vote for López Obrador, it would be very much on the > basis of supporting the lesser (but possibly significantly lesser) of two evils. I don't understand how your comment yesterday was consistent with what you wrote last Thursday: aren't you suggesting in the latter that you *might* support Obrador in the election by voting for him? The reason you are suggesting (that he might be a lesser evil) is different from saying that you oppose his exclusion, isn't it? In solidarity, Jerry
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