> On Apr 28, 2024, at 10:56 AM, Charlie via groups.io
> <charles1848=sbcglobal....@groups.io> wrote:
>
> • "Socialism" in the article is a cup of weak tea dissolved in a gallon of
> water. • Harris nicely describes the Heritage Foundation project, a document.
I agree with both points. Regarding the "weak tea" characterization
"For those who say there is no difference between the Democrats and
Republicans, or that the US is not a democracy, or that we are already living
under an authoritarian government, please take Project 2025 seriously."
This isn't a class-struggle strategy but a class-collaborationist one to ally
with one sector of the billionaire class against the other. Even though the
other is organizing an authoritarian takeover complete with para-militaries,
allying with the other is not the socialism that I learned.
The US left, however, is in disarray. Our most powerful working class
organizations are business unions tied to the Democratic Party, mostly.
Practically every major mass movement over the past quarter century has failed
to achieve meaningful concessions such as the Anti-globalization movement, the
movement against the "War Against Terror" that claimed the lives of 4M people,
Occupy Wall Street, and BLM. The movement to support Gaza has not yet formed
an effective, nation-wide united front to stop arms shipments to Israel. We
haven't effectively reached the great mass of US Americans, and we need to do
this as a duty to the people of the Occupied Territories.
All of this puts me at a loss on how to fight the threat as it was described in
the article that MM shared. But the article doesn't consider the Democratic
Party, only the Republican one. The Democrats have proven to be a poor shield
against authoritarianism. Obama allowed 10M people to be thrown out of their
homes, losing life savings; Clinton threw poor US children off federal aid by
eliminating "aid to families with dependent children," they all were friends
of finance and enemies of their US victims, overseeing unprecedented growth in
wealth inequality, watching tent cities pop up nation-wide and doing nothing -
over two presidential administrations, 12 years. Obmam and Biden have greatly
expanded the surveillance state. There is a sizable share of the US voting
population who voted for Obama before they voted for Trump. Maybe they gave up
on the Democratic Party for a good reason and there's nothing "wrong with
Kansas." Maybe the problem is that we're not building an alternative to the
Democratic Party.
Mark
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