The Real Reason American Socialists Don’t Win
The Real Reason American Socialists Don’t Win
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The Real Reason American Socialists Don’t Win
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There are non paywall version?
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Since it's the Atlantic, I'm sure it's bullshit instead of mentioning the real reasons (corporate democrats and media putting their thumbs on the scale whenever one gets in a position to potentially win).
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So basically, we have two factions in the DSA. One a pragmatic DemSocy who are compromisers. One an idealist who are probably better ideologically (ie. have better red lines vis à vis Israel). But aren’t very successful in being strategic within electoralism?
I don't really agree that they're all necessarily better. In terms of Palestine, sure (although I personally think it's extremely poor strategy to exile people like AOC who still largely agree with you on the big stuff over minor disagreements like iron dome funding). But I don't really understand why Marxist-Leninists who generally don't believe in democratic governance are participating in the party, unless their goal is simply to coopt it and turn it into something else. In which case they should not be permitted to participate. But maybe I'm missing something?
But politics in majoritarian systems is about building a winning coalition. If you want to pursue electoralism, then that's what needs to happen. You don't need to like liberals but you are going to need to work with them when they outnumber you 100 to 1.
One of the main tactics of MLs is institutional capture…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryism?wprov=sfti1