Some on the left have argued that the political radicalization of the
last few years is primarily attributable to the 2016 and 2020
presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders.^19 This same cohort tends to
downplay the role of social movements in shifting consciousness,
locating the main expression of this radicalization in Sanders’ campaign
as a socialist and the growth of the Democratic Socialists of America.
But this latest wave of anti-racist protest suggests that the
radicalization goes much deeper than either the Sanders campaign or the
DSA alone. If anything, the immediate, national response and the
composition of these protests point to the significance of the Black
Lives Matter movement in changing consciousness about the role of the
police and the need for transformative, radical change. One sign of this
growing consciousness is that 74 percent of Americans view Floyd’s death
as an issue of racial injustice—a 30-point increase over how Americans
responded following the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.^20
Today, militant protests against police brutality have fundamentally
changed the terrain of struggle and revived mass action as the way to
win social change. The speed with which prosecutors charged all four
officers involved in George Floyd’s murder, as compared to the months it
took before Ahmed Aubrey’s killers were even arrested,^21 can be
attributed to this fact: Minneapolis fought back.
https://newpol.org/issue_post/the-movement-for-black-lives-%e2%80%a8is-different-this-time/
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