Ruth Webb used to supplement her grocery shopping with a monthly trip to a local food pantry, where she would get fresh produce like potatoes, onions and carrots.
these months would have happened anyway and are/would be more of a radicalization deal for way more people than your socdem bernie voters
Deteriorating material conditions aren't enough to push people left -- they'll get radicalized, alright, but not necessarily in the right direction.
To radicalize people to the left you also need (1) a critique of capitalism and (2) a vision for how leftist policies could do better. That's why Medicare for All was such a great rallying cry for Bernie; it did both for a huge problem that everyone has at least some interaction with. If you get people moving in that direction then what radicalizes them is all the Bernie-adjacent people who are farther, more formally left, not someone on Fox News screaming that immigrants are the problem.
I think that depends on the chapter. BLM LA are communists as far as I can tell. The organizers were talking to the crowds about Marx and the dialectic at marches.
I’ve been super fucking impressed by them actually.
They had us doing the Assata Shakur chant:
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Damn here in Portland any sort of BLM leaders are dedicated libs. Barely any overt connection being made between racist oppression and capitalist structures from anyone with a megaphone
Yea, this pandemic would be a really wild ride, politically, if Bernie was the nominee. And that is exactly why the effort went into his campaign. But the deeper question always was, "is there a tipping point, where the left can win electorally? Or is electoralism within the grip of power to a degree that it will always be abused to prevent real power distribution.
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Deteriorating material conditions aren't enough to push people left -- they'll get radicalized, alright, but not necessarily in the right direction.
To radicalize people to the left you also need (1) a critique of capitalism and (2) a vision for how leftist policies could do better. That's why Medicare for All was such a great rallying cry for Bernie; it did both for a huge problem that everyone has at least some interaction with. If you get people moving in that direction then what radicalizes them is all the Bernie-adjacent people who are farther, more formally left, not someone on Fox News screaming that immigrants are the problem.
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I think that depends on the chapter. BLM LA are communists as far as I can tell. The organizers were talking to the crowds about Marx and the dialectic at marches.
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Fuck yeah
I’ve been super fucking impressed by them actually.
They had us doing the Assata Shakur chant:
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Damn here in Portland any sort of BLM leaders are dedicated libs. Barely any overt connection being made between racist oppression and capitalist structures from anyone with a megaphone
Yea, this pandemic would be a really wild ride, politically, if Bernie was the nominee. And that is exactly why the effort went into his campaign. But the deeper question always was, "is there a tipping point, where the left can win electorally? Or is electoralism within the grip of power to a degree that it will always be abused to prevent real power distribution.