08w23:1 Ralph the Lennist. It had to get worse for it to get better Posted June 4th, 2008 by timothy. 0 Comments Goodreads | 2008 week 23 number 1 (Ralph the Leninist. It had to get worse before it got better) Ralph the Leninist | Jacob Weisberg http://www.slate.com/id/1006380/ “But really, the question shouldn’t be the one liberals seem to be asking about why Nader is doing what he’s doing. The question should be why anyone is surprised. For some time now, Nader has made it perfectly clear that his campaign isn’t about trying to pull the Democrats back to the left. Rather, his strategy is the Leninist one of “heightening the contradictions.” It’s not just that Nader is willing to take a chance of being personally responsible for electing Bush. It’s that he’s actively trying to elect Bush because he thinks that social conditions in American need to get worse before they can better.” Posted Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2000, at 8:13 PM ET
