The Freedom Socialist Party has never run a presidential candidate, nor even a candidate for statewide office, in any state. Instead, it has limited its electoral campaigns to state legislative races, and races for local office, in Washington, Oregon, California, and New York.
This year, however, the Freedom Socialist Party is actively helping the Socialist Party place Brian Moore on the Washington ballot. Moore is the Socialist Party’s presidential nominee. This will probably guarantee Moore a spot on the ballot in Washington. The Socialist Party last placed a presidential nominee on the Washington ballot in 2000, when only 200 supporters were needed. The requirement since 2004 has been 1,000 supporters.
Hey Richard, how many state ballots does it look like Moore will be getting on this year?
Tough to predict. He has hopes for Arkansas, California, Colorado (already on), Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont (already on), Washington, Wisconsin. Maybe I missed one or two.
Please answer a question for me: How can a party be for both freedom and Socialism?
Thank you.
Thanks: it’ll be interesting to see if Moore can surpass Walt Brown’s totals from ’04.
Walt Brown also did a fine job of getting official write-in status in numerous states which helped up his national popular vote total a fair amount. I was amazed to discover in my then-home state of Virginia, after the election was over, that he not only was an official write-in there (which meant that somehow he found someone in each congressional district plus two more at-large to serve as electors for the form you have to fill out), where the Socialist Party isn’t even organized, but he outpolled David Cobb of the Green Party.
Luke Saturnah Says:
July 6th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Please answer a question for me: How can a party be for both freedom and Socialism?
Thank you.
Phil Sawyer answers:
Your question is typical of bourgeois thinking about freedom. Let us turn the question around: How can a party be for both freedom and capitalism?
For me, one of the best definitions of socialism is this: a system of government where the proletariat (working class, peasant class, etc.) has control and ownership of the means of production and the distribution of goods.