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On 3/3/20 4:58 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
Very sharp analysis by an Australian Marxist who puts the Sandernista
crap in Greenleft to shame.
https://redflag.org.au/node/7048
From the same author on FB:
Super Tuesday:
1. Forget any notion that the Democrats are not a party as we know it,
are a ballot line, are a part of the state. They are a powerfully
cohered political party with a big mass base. That base is trained to
actively favour class collaboration and neoliberalism. Why wouldn't 70%
of Democrats in California vote against Sanders? They are activists and
fundraisers for Pelosi and Newsom. There are other currents in the
Democrats but that is their base, as you would expect in a bourgeois
party more than a century old.
1b) There is also a base of active and pretty conscious opposition to
this which Sanders cultivates and relates to. Its size in real terms is
hard to determine.
2. The black bureaucracy is probably the only bureaucracy in the USA
that has made great sacrifices in struggle, appeared to win, and entered
the ruling class while its constituency remains intensely oppressed. For
that reason it is more influential than the union bureaucracy.
2b) but it only corrals a minority of the black population, and is weak
among the young. It has been unable to contain major social outbursts
even in the last five years.
3. Sanders has a serious dilemma that will affect how his campaign
shapes consciousness. His hard supporters respond to left wing attacks
on Biden, and upping the ante might be necessary to inspire them to keep
fighting; but he also has to cultivate acceptance from the Democratic
apparatus if he is going to really try to win. His supporters may
increasingly be taught to accept, and admire, a cynical mixture of
verbal denunciations with practical capitulations. This makes
oppositional candidacies an effective way to restore the authority of
apparently discredited institutions.
3b) but if he loses, the question of how to defeat America's bourgeoisie
around health care and inequality will remain open to be answered,
having been raised, and with the blame having been directed clearly
towards the broad Democratic apparatus.
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