When some in the DSA’s leadership suggested that the organization could at least call on its members in swing states to consider voting for Biden, the majority voted down the proposal.
The organization lacks a united political program even on such basic matters as whom to endorse for president.
Yeah that is a unified political program for basic matters like whom to endorse. Just because the members voted in a way you don’t like doesn’t mean there’s no system there.
America’s youth-led social-protest movements petered out by the end of the 1970s, however, and the left came to place itself outside the political system, condemning itself to marginality.
First off, most of that youth-led protest movement was petty bourgeois white kids whose interest was not being shipped off to war, with some hedonism thrown in. So a liberal movement. Second, way to overlook the legacy of McCarthyism pushing leftists out of political and labor organizations.
In Israel, a left-wing coalition with Arab and Jewish members decided to join Zionist parties of the left and the center in endorsing the centrist Benny Gantz for prime minister, with a goal of ousting Benjamin Netanyahu, seen by the group as a menace to Israel’s democracy.
Also they literally sent in the National Guard to murder youth protestors in addition to other incidences of violence against demonstrators. The social-protest movement didn’t just “peter out”
Right? The feds hunted down and killed or dismantled all the actual left wing groups then instigated the drug war specifically to provide cover for decades of counter-intelligence repression!
Yeah that is a unified political program for basic matters like whom to endorse. Just because the members voted in a way you don’t like doesn’t mean there’s no system there.
First off, most of that youth-led protest movement was petty bourgeois white kids whose interest was not being shipped off to war, with some hedonism thrown in. So a liberal movement. Second, way to overlook the legacy of McCarthyism pushing leftists out of political and labor organizations.
Okay now he’s just embarrassing himself.
Also they literally sent in the National Guard to murder youth protestors in addition to other incidences of violence against demonstrators. The social-protest movement didn’t just “peter out”
Right? The feds hunted down and killed or dismantled all the actual left wing groups then instigated the drug war specifically to provide cover for decades of counter-intelligence repression!