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"Some comrades in East Bay DSA (EBDSA) have formed the Eugene Debs Caucus. What is happening in EBDSA can best be understood by understanding the strategy of the Democratic Party. That strategy is to ride the health care issue, including “single payer”, to a congressional majority (they hope) in 2018 and then back into the White House in 2020, after which they will drop “single payer” like a hot potato if they regain power. How seriously they can be taken on the “single payer” issue is seen by the fact that when they actually had control – right after Obama was elected in 2008 – they refused to even discuss not only single payer but even having a public insurance *option *for their health care reform! The Democrats’ strategy revealed itself in all its glory recently here in California where the Democrats raised the issue and then made sure to kill it. (See this article <https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/07/06/us-health-care-single-payer-or-socialized-medicine/> for the gory details, as well as for a critique of single payer itself.) There is now an ongoing debate around internal democracy within EBDSA. The lack of democracy that many feel is directly related to the issue of the direction of EBDSA and of DSA in general. Attached are two documents of the Eugene Debs Caucus." Included in the article are two statements: - A "Statement of Purpose" which discusses why it's impossible to support any Democrats and actually work to build a working class party. It also discusses a strategy for how we can start now. - A statement "Social Democracy or Revolutionary Socialism?" https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/09/16/dsa-eugene-debs-caucus-formed/ -- "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." Asata Shakur Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com and // www.facebook.com/WorkersIntlNetwork?ref=stream _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
