[Marxism] It Really Comes Down to Empowering the Working Class
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. * In the whole history of electoral party socialism -- AKA "democratic socialism" -- this "eventually" (eventually ending private property) never happens. Universal rent control, though a worthwhile reform, historically reduces the value of the buildings but does not prevent the landlord from making a profit -- partly because they have political clout to limit the rent control. "A democratic socialist recognizes the capitalist system as being inherently oppressive, and is actively working to dismantle it and to empower the working class and the marginalized in our society. Socialists recognize that under capitalism, rich people are able — through private control of industry and of what should be public goods — to accumulate wealth by exploiting the working class and the underclass. Functionally, this perpetuates and exacerbates inequality. "A progressive will stop short at proposing reforms that help people but don’t necessarily transform the system. For example a progressive might advocate for forcing landlords to do necessary repairs on buildings. But unless you advocate for universal rent control and frankly, eventually, the abolition of private property — though that’s not my campaign platform because it’s not very realistic — what you’re actually doing is just kicking the can down the road." https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/julia-salazar-interview-socialist-new-york-senate _ 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
Re: [Marxism] “It Really Comes Down to Empowering the Working Class”
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. * On 7/6/18 2:40 PM, Mark Lause wrote: Today, I've seen tweets indicating that the DSA is now up to 45,000 and still growing. It has been generations since so many Americans have joined an organization self-described as "socialist." One of the great mistakes the socialist movement (with a few exceptions) made in my youth was to dismiss the SDS for its disorganized thinking about electoral politics. The place of socialists was to be in there making the case for class politics. And I don't mean this in a sectarian way. Let's not forget that SDS also had roots in the social democracy as the Student League for Industrial Democracy. _ 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
Re: [Marxism] “It Really Comes Down to Empowering the Working Class”
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. * Today, I've seen tweets indicating that the DSA is now up to 45,000 and still growing. It has been generations since so many Americans have joined an organization self-described as "socialist." One of the great mistakes the socialist movement (with a few exceptions) made in my youth was to dismiss the SDS for its disorganized thinking about electoral politics. The place of socialists was to be in there making the case for class politics. And I don't mean this in a sectarian way. As with the SDS, the real key involves actions beyond the electoral arena that make subservience to the Democratic Party an increasingly obvious contradiction. Cheers, Mark L. _ 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
[Marxism] “It Really Comes Down to Empowering the Working Class”
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. * I'm afraid the DSA (yes, I joined) comrade and I have different notions of what it means to "seize power": Jacobin: But then on the other side, you have people saying socialists should only run outside the Democratic Party. What’s your answer to them? Julia Salazar: They should tell that to the over 150,000 people in my district, who are living in fear every day of being displaced from their homes, and who are registered Democrats in a state with closed primaries. It’s unquestionably strategic here in New York — though not everywhere, I should add — to run as a Democrat if you want to seize power as a leftist. To mobilize people around socialist politics you have to engage Democratic voters, and you can’t do that in any meaningful way without running on the Democratic Party line in my district https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/julia-salazar-interview-socialist-new-york-senate _ 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
