Gotta square this circle. You definitely don’t want to go down the track of being co-opted by democrats. But you absolutely cannot mobilize the masses by just telling them “wait for the revolution”.
There’s gonna be things that can be attended by direct action (union organizing, literacy, breakfast program, that kind of thing) and things that can’t. I think what leftist leaders should do about the things that can only be tackled by national reform is to encourage people to vote for the progressive democrats where it makes sense; worst case, they lose and we learn nothing, but best case they win and when everyone sees them fail to change anything, it makes it a lot easier to sell people on further revolutionary action.
Gotta square this circle. You definitely don’t want to go down the track of being co-opted by democrats. But you absolutely cannot mobilize the masses by just telling them “wait for the revolution”.
theres no such thing as waiting for a revolution
it has to be built, and its a lot of work.
luckily if we have a lot of people on board, we can divide the work up and do quite a bunch.
There’s gonna be things that can be attended by direct action (union organizing, literacy, breakfast program, that kind of thing) and things that can’t. I think what leftist leaders should do about the things that can only be tackled by national reform is to encourage people to vote for the progressive democrats where it makes sense; worst case, they lose and we learn nothing, but best case they win and when everyone sees them fail to change anything, it makes it a lot easier to sell people on further revolutionary action.