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Article: Post-Election Organizing: Winning Over Grassroots Progressives.
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- Synthesis/Regeneration
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The Nader 2000 campaign precipitated the sharpest split between liberals and radicals since the mid 1960s when radicals in the civil rights and anti-war movements broke with the Democratic Party over its racism and Vietnam. The liberals today work as junior partners in a left-center coalition with more powerful corporate interests inside the Democratic Party, claiming it is the only way to hold off the more conservative Republican right. The radicals want class independence from the whole corporate power structure through a independent progressive political party, arguing that the way to turn the country in a progressive direction is to organize directly around a ...