Re: [Marxism] Sanders withdraws: What next?
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. * > "Now that Bernie Sanders has officially withdrawn from the race, what > lessons will be learned by his tens of thousands of supporters? It’s a lot more than tens of thousands. My union, the Professional Staff Congress, which represents about 30,000 faculty and professional staff at the City University of New York, voted to endorse Sander only a few weeks ago, when his prospects were already bleak. Sanders has millions of supporters. The AFT, NEA, UFCW and AFSCME have all endorsed Biden. Some of the socialists who supported Sanders are already telling us how important it is to work for Biden. I wonder if Jacobin will still be pushing Branko Marcetic’s informative book, Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. What will the DSA position be? Glenn _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Sanders withdraws: What next?
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. * "Now that Bernie Sanders has officially withdrawn from the race, what lessons will be learned by his tens of thousands of supporters? For many of the 20+ year olds, it’s entirely understandable that they enthusiastically backed his campaign. After all, he promised very real steps to make their lives better, like forgiving student debt and government-paid health insurance. Many of those supporters were probably unfamiliar with previous similar campaigns. These include those of Dennis Kucinich, Jesse Jackson, and George McGovern (who actually won the nomination). The list goes all the way back to Gene McCarthy in 1972. What came of all those campaigns? What was built out of them? And what will be built out of Sanders’s campaign? Will it be anything more than just another attempt to push the Democrats to the left, which may happen for awhile, until the pressure eases Then they will slide right back into their more openly pro-corporate comfort zone. “Dirty break” "The end of Sanders’s campaign and the history of the similar ones of the past shows what the “dirty break” strategy is really all about" Read entire article: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/04/08/sanders-withdraws-what-next/ John Reimann -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
