On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 09:23 PM, Charles wrote: > > This stratum supported Mamdani the most. DSA draws disproportionately from > them and is run by them. Of course they are part of the class. Because they > easily speak up a lot and glide into group leadership positions, they also > have the biggest need to overcome reformism.
All workers, not only the most liberal and better educated, have an equal need to go beyond reformism. However, all workers have always been reformists until the system has exhausted its capacity for reform. Marxists have rightly joined and often led workers in fighting for basic reforms - the right to organize and strike for better pay and working conditions in the workplace and for democratic rights in the wider society outside of it. However, at the same time many have been reluctant to acknowledge they are also objectively reformist whatever their subjective claims and self-identification as “revolutionary" Marxists. It is only when a repressive state blocks all outlets for peaceful change that workers, students, and intellectuals are forced of necessity to move beyond reformist to revolutionary politics. Until then, the internet can serve as a useful medium for politically educating and helping to mobilize selected groups of workers fighting for democratic reforms at home and expressing solidarity with struggles of the oppressed abroad. But issuing exclamatory demands and calling on the workers to fight for communism in the current period is more apt to be seen by most (as well as by Marxists active in their ranks) as eccentric and sectarian rather than as a meaningful contribution to their cause. Charles will again ask for "evidence" to support these assertions. As for everyone, these are only impressions shaped by my own partricular experience. Others may have experienced working class culture differently. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40605): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40605 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117601828/21656 -=-=- 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/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
