In 2008, I said: “the problem with John Edwards platform is his voting record”
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We’re 6 months in, we have a really solid view now of what a DSA state will be: bike lanes and cops protecting Palestinian land sales. Public/private partnerships and homeless sweeps. AI in classrooms and pothole filling and lots and lots of instagram videos.
Huge victory for the left over the corrupt and anti-affordable teachers union. Now to bring it home by reelecting Rahm Emanuel next year
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Listen, the Trump isn’t groypers, it’s DOGE, Palantir contracts, and ICE. That’s infrastructure. Or, with DOGE, the “crippling of the administrative state” as Project 2025 put it, the goal of which was to future-proof their political project from any democratic changeover.
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at a very objective level the biggest blue wave elections in history immediately precipitated immense demobilization and outright dismantling of social movements
Among a few other points for people writing their 4th obituary of Trumpism, idk maybe consider that Trump was swept out of power and swept back in within 4 years and Dems swept out and back in within 2 and neither had even an iota of actual reckoning???…?
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Democrats, republicans, DSA, and DSA-adjacent ultras choose to appeal to the same constituencies, using similar nationalist and populist rhetoric. Politics shift rightward, though the language of affordability is taken as a sign of progressive left politics. It is not.
Taking an actual risk of being a dumbass here- reading Neil Harding’s book on Lenin and strikes me how lacking the US communist movement seems to be in a serious analysis of class and capital development in America right now.
Would appreciate it if zillennial Marxists would not tell me about how things are so different right now because you saw how angry someone was on instagram 🫶
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This is understandable? DSA candidates largely just replaced staid members of the congressional progressive caucus. Meanwhile, moderate to liberal Dems flipped +20-30 Trump districts in red states.
You need to be optimistic. But also not. But also optimistic. But also not. But also? Be optimistic. But don’t be optimistic. Are you being optimistic now? Uh uh uh- Simon didn’t say 😠
Hard to argue with someone who’s convinced themselves that workers <-> renters <-> consistent Dem voters
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NEW PIECE: I comment on the election, in part by discussing some of my experience at Dialog 2024 and with... former Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll(!?). My main focus: Blame attribution drove the results of the election but blame fades.
Similarly as I start to dive in to reading more on Lenin, I’m struck by the idea of some that Lenin wouldn’t be able to suss out differences in both the political and economic situations of workers between turn of the century Tsarist Russia and 21st century America.
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There are a handful of people who want to pull off this “I’m actually being optimistic AND pessimistic at the same time 😎 because I’m a REAL Marxist and a REAL organizer” and it’s like, pull your head out of your ass buddy.
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The first election where people have betrayed their cultural values to vote with their pocketbooks in almost two years. Historical.
