When Sanders put himself forward as one of the first national
politicians to oppose defunding police departments, it revealed how
political figures who can appear radical in one context can migrate very
quickly in the opposite direction. This recalls figures such as Bayard
Rustin and Michael Harrington, social democrats of the 1960s who were
part of the left wing of the civil rights movement who then shifted
rightwards to become defenders of the liberal establishment, and in the
process marginalizing themselves from the burgeoning Vietnam antiwar
movement.
There is great potential for a different kind of U.S. socialist movement
to emerge from this national uprising in the coming years. For one,
those who argue that “anti-racism” is the politics of the neoliberal
elite or the expression of a professional-managerial class, such as
Adolph Reed and his supporters, will be consigned to the proverbial dust
bin of history.
https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/08/a-new-era-begins/
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