How Shall We Vote?

Abstract

In the past, American Marxists have all too frequently experienced a serious contradiction between their roles as vanguard theorists and as practical politicians. Ideally, this contradiction should not exist, yet we know it does. In our desire to formulate 100 percent correct theoretical positions and at the same time to acquire support among the people and make our maximum impact in the arena of national politics, we have more often than not lost adherents and weakened our political influence.

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