I don't regularly read the press of the Revolutionary Communist Party,
but I think you must be thinking of some other party unless the RCP has
made a complete 180 from the position they have held since their
founding. The RCP has always urged everyone not to vote for anyone. They
urge a boycott of bourgeois elections in favor of direct street actions.
I am thinking that you may have heard someone from the Communist Party,
USA. The last time I recall them running their own candidate was when
Gus Hall ran for president in 1976. If they have run a candidate for
anything since I must have missed it. It seems to me that they have
become a faction of the Democrat party instead. They always urge a vote
for the Democrat candidate and, in fact, when they ran Gus Hall in 1972
they still praised party members for voting for George McGovern. But if
they no longer run candidates of their own and always urge a vote for
Democrats I find it hard to see how the CPUSA is not a faction of the
Democrat party.
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Carl Sagan
“Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder
and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to
nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will
prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront
the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the
Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will
penetrate its deepest mysteries.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
On 8/27/2020 3:33 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
On Flashpoints, I heard someone, I think he's the head of the Revolutionary
Communist Party, say that given the immanent threat of Fascism that another
term of Trump as President is causing, everyone should vote for the
Democrdatic nominee, Joe Biden, regardless of what they think of him. Isn't
that a surprise for someone in a Communist party to suggest, given Roger's
position on voting?
Miriam