Corey Robin: it's not just a victory over the Establishment; it's an opportunity to school the Left.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/03/michigan-primary-bernie-sanders-nomination/ [...] The Left loves social movements. I do, too. But social movements don’t happen in a political vacuum; they’re not immune to the mood and medium of electoral politics. There’s nothing quite like a presidential campaign for taking pots and kettles long simmering on the Left’s back burner and bringing them to a furious boil <https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/03/bernie-sanders-primary-socialists-third-party/> . That means two things. First, we do have to remain focused on primaries and delegate counts. It’s only so long as there is a viable campaign that we have the opportunity for a conversation on such a massive scale. There’s a set of leftists who think the revolution will come from small conversations in socialist study groups and reading circles, that the way to radicalize is by simply “talking to people” — which really means talking at people — in the absence of some galvanizing question that brings those people to the table. Anyone who’s selling you that line is either out of touch or trying to sign you up for their classes. They want to make you believe you can just get people to think and argue and reflect in a vacuum, without some real taste of power in the here and now. That’s not how it works. [...]
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