Fkalosar101, Jimmy Dore has expressed sympathy with the Boogaloo Boys in the past, as you well know. This was a big reason for my questioning any faith or solidarity I had with Dore in the past, even though I was always well to the left of both Jimmy Dore, and the DSA.
You raise an interesting point about a potential solidarity movement between Dore, and the MPP, and the likes of the Boogaloo Boys. The populist desparation, forged by forty plus years of neoliberal austerity, unending militarism, and imperiallism,,and declining standard of living, may be producing some unusual alliances, along class lines, that are breaking down traditional left/right barriers. The political paradigm is rapidly changing,and we really don't know where things are going. Trump proved to be more of an accelerationary force than we had planned. Perhaps the DSA/Bernie plan of taking over the Democratic Party, and gradually "moving it to the left", is a failed idea, that history has now passed by. Maybe it's time for the DSA become a more radical, or revolutionary, left organization, or risk ending up in the dustbin of history. > > > > Absurdly calling the Democrats “radical Left” and “socialist” is a staple > on FOX, OAN, Newsmax, right-wing talk radio, and in Republican campaign > literature and agitation. It hardly causes a single raised eyebrow to hear > the centrist corporate and imperialist ruling class president Joe Biden > described as an agent of “socialism” by politicos and talking heads on the > right. > > > > All of which raises an interesting question to this writer and historian, > for whom open identification as an anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist > socialist has long been a career-killer: has anybody of any prominence in > American public life stood up to say a kind, decent, and honest human word > in defense of the right of American human beings to actually be left > radicals, Marxists, anarchists, socialists, and communists and/or about > the remarkable contribution such human beings have made in American > history and society? > > > > I haven’t seen or heard any such defense or acknowledgement. Biden last > year boasted of how he “beat the socialist” – that is, how he defeated the > vaguely social-democratish Bernie Sanders (with some unacknowledged help > from the corporate political and media establishment) in the Democratic > primaries. Democrats habitually shrug off and deny charges of socialism as > if socialism is a virulent and evil disease instead of what it really is: > an existential necessity if humanity is going to have any chance at a > decent future. Mr. “socialist” Sanders himself eschews radicalism, denying > that there is anything radical about his calls for Single Payer national > health insurance and a Green New Deal. “We are not calling for radical > change!” But what on Earth would be wrong with doing that? > > > > When’s the last time you heard Bernie quote Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on > how “the real issue to be faced” beyond superficial matters is “the > radical reconstruction of society itself”? I’ve never heard him or > Alexandria Ocasio Cortez quote King or Albert Einstein or Hellen Keller or > WEB DuBois or John Dewey on the need for radical societal overhaul. > > https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/07/would-anyone-care-to-defend-american-radicals/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8444): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8444 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/82621517/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
