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(Although I find Michael Lebowitz's argument that the word "communist" be retired in favor of socialist, this statement from DSA candidate Lee Carter makes me think that perhaps the word might be necessary in order to avoid confusion with the DP liberalism of this guy, Bernie Sanders et al. 50 years of stability? Tell that to the people of Korea, Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.)
Carter said he’s “always been a bit to the left of where the Democratic Party was, and a little dissatisfied with what they were doing on a large scale, and never knew why. It wasn’t until Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign that I put two and two together. I looked up to guys like FDR and Democrats of that era who were really rooted in working class politics. They had these mass movements of union workers who stood up and said ‘we’re not going to be mistreated by corporate interests anymore,’ and they were able to achieve 50 year of stability and prosperity for this country. I always wondered why Democrats couldn’t act like that again.”
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