> On Mar 12, 2016, at 11:11 AM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > > How electing Bernie Sanders will prevent > corporations for setting up in Bangladesh or Cambodia is rather a > mystery to me, especially since he is not particularly anticapitalist.
Sanders is a left liberal or social democrat, which amounts to the same thing, and in that sense faithfully reflects the consciousness of the great majority of his supporters. As such, he is for regulating the corporations rather than overthrowing capitalism. No mystery there. In this case, as I indicated earlier, Sanders and his supporters want to stop trade deals which allow the corporations to depress global wage levels and rollback laws passed by nation-states which conflict with capitalist interests. Attempts to reform international trade might be as unrealizable as past and present demands for reform in other areas. But failure is never assured - some gains can result - and struggles for reform, whatever the outcome, advance the consciousness and organization of large numbers of people and provides rare openings for the far left to engage with them. I read your comment above, together with your subject line, as effectively saying to Sanders and his supporters, “you’re wasting your time condemning these deals and attempting to block them. You need to make a socialist revolution, failing which you might as well go home and forget about politics.” I’m sure that is how they would hear it, notwithstanding your sarcastic claim to be in tune with them in theory (“Oh sure, everybody knows I am infamous for supporting TPP and other such trade agreements.”) _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
