ABSTRACT
State and local multi-issue political organizations and coalitions appear in a number of cities and states. Sometime in the 1980s, a candidate should be run for president on a program of economic democracy. A state or city transitional program would be put forward by a state-wide or citywide political organization or a coalition. At the state level, where there are partisan elections, the effort should focus on the Democratic Party primaries in effect, as a party within a party. A movement for economic democracy can claim legitimacy only by demonstrating the ability to win elections, to govern cities or states, and to spread a new, democratic viewpoint among a majority of citizens. The cooperative movement, as it grows in the 1980s, will have to reach out to the unions and to progressive politicians both to obtain support and to educate them on the day-to-day realities of democratic enterprises.
