After Biden’s meltdown, the Democrats are hoping to reenergize people with a supposedly “progressive” pick for Kamala Harris’ running mate.
After Biden’s meltdown, the Democrats are hoping to reenergize people with a supposedly “progressive” pick for Kamala Harris’ running mate.
Build dual power. The state will persist until capitalism inevitably destroys itself and the state that props it up.
We must have strong and well-networked communities that can survive and thrive when that happens.
In the meantime, it’s easier to have a liberal squishy government in power than a fascist one. The libs will attempt to placate and pander to us with little concessions here and there.
That’s better than fascists who will do as much as possible to crush us into oblivion and suppress any rumblings that sound even slightly left-wing.
Both parties are statist and against any true vision of socialist structures, but don’t pretend the republicans and dems are equally bad. Dems are bad, but the right-wingers are Satan. I’d much rather fight the mini-boss than the main boss if I had the choice.
Dual Power cannot be built. It was a Bolshevik term for their analysis of the situation in the Russian Empire where the Russian government was so weak and delegitimized and soviets had built up enough of their own power that they believed revolution could be seized at that particular moment.
Capitalism destroys itself only through its contradictions, of making a system that produces a class conscious working class. This is only inevitable over a long time frame and it can be sped up through socialist political education and organizing.
The liberal government has many properties of the fascist one and has traditionally led to fascism, which is used as a tool of capital to crush an ascendant left. The fascists were inspired by American settler-colonialism and liberalism and the US government supported them up until the start of WWII, including in collaboration with American companies there. They then saved a bunch of Nazis, keeping them in positions of power in West Germany and using them to fight left wing movements in Latin Ampa.
The liberal government is just where capital is in full control and not worried about the left. You see them drop their mask when they feel any threat from the left. For example, the Democratic political class controls the major cities and many states and there they fund the cops, hire the cops, and use their violence to fight us. Walz infamously sent the National Guard in to suppress the original George Floyd protests. If they get worried enough they will gladly let fascists deal with the problem of socialists, as they always have.
Liberal pandering to the left is false promises and cynical manipulations. There is a fundamental opposition between us, they cannot actually oppose caoital, they are a capitalist political entity.
The idea of dual power came from statists and is unique to statists. Marxist organizing is premised on the maintenance of the state post-revolution.
They are part of the same continuum that delivers one-two punches for capital. They agree with one another far more than they disagree. They are also both liberal parties, one is just more conservative. We do not actually have many proper fascists in the US. Instead, we have reactionaries that are part of the exact systems the US has had in place under liberalism. A given white supremacist organization is not a new fascist reaction, it is a harkening back to tge liberal status quo 50-70 years ago, to Jim Crow, and beyond.
You’ll find that the current Dem administration is doing a genocide. How are liberals reacting to this? Have they made any real demands? Threatened to withhold their votes? Of course not. The role they are taught, by your logic, is a tailing lesser-evilism where their idea of political action is hand-wringing before inevitably voting as an individual and never thinking beyond the current election.
Dems are right wing.