Seven Theses on the Post-Trump Right and DSA’s Role in the Fight Ahead DSA Santa Cruz Executive Committee, Jan. 9 https://dsasantacruz.org/articles/the-post-trump-right/
"As the largest and most organized force on the U.S left, DSA has a crucial role to play in how the broader left interprets and responds to the storming of the US Capitol. As socialists, we are opposed to everything that happened in Washington Wednesday because it was an attempt by racist, right wing extremists to grow their movement, not because we are, in principle, opposed to occupying Congress. Any criticism of Wednesday's action must be centered on the politics of the actors involved, more than on the disrespect of “hallowed American institutions” as many CNN commentators have lamented. As socialists, we are committed to defending the limited forms of democracy that exist in this country, however hollow and compromised they may be. But we do not fetishize these institutions... . . . "As we move into this new phase in U.S. politics signalled by Wednesday’s events, it is time for the DSA to re-evaluate its relation to the Democratic party and the institutions it controls. Instead of drawing the organizing energies of our members into campaigns to call congress members, we need to turn our face more directly to the working class... Our response... must emerge from our understanding of how this racist, anti-worker, anti-poor capitalist death machine can actually be overcome. That will require organizing, not lobbying." On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 1:12 AM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io <[email protected]> wrote: > > We Cannot Let Yesterday’s Farce Become Tomorrow’s Tragedy > Antifascist Organizing Now! > Spectre Editorial Board, January 9, 2021 > https://spectrejournal.com/we-cannot-let-yesterdays-farce-become-tomorrows-tragedy/ > . . . > Liberals will outdo themselves in a rush to rally behind bipartisan > capitalist unity and state repression to deal with the fascist threat. > They will lend credibility to the law and order consensus articulated > by both parties on Wednesday by police authorities and the media, > particularly CNN, which rooted for police suppression of the right. > Liberal forces are magnetically attracted to the law and order regime > because they see the state, not mass anti-fascist action, as the key > to dealing with the right. > . . . > ...And crucially, we must redouble our efforts to build an activist > socialist alternative that fights independently of the Democrats for > demands that will address the multiple crises of the capitalist > system: real pandemic relief; a Green New Deal; rent relief and a > moratorium on evictions; Medicare for All; the $15 minimum wage and > union rights; defunding of the police; abolition of ICE; and massive > cuts to the war budget. > . . . > All of this requires aggressively working to reorient the socialist > left, especially the Democratic Socialists of America, from its > overwhelmingly electoral focus toward organizing struggle from below, > especially anti-racist and workplace struggles... > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5411): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5411 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79591409/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
