On March 19, the Democratic Socialists of America’s magazine Democratic Left published an interview with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez combining lavish praise for the Democratic Party with vicious denunciations of socialism.
It’s not power that corrupts, it’s motives. AOC’s motive is the accumulation of cloat and the furthering of neoliberalism.
the Democrats only cared about the ICE tragedy - which was previously overseen by Obama, btw - because they could use it as a means of obtaining support against Trump. They’ve stopped talking about it, simply because it no longer benefits them to - in fact it hurts them. They can’t criticize the detainment of immigrants without also outing themselves as supporters of that detainment, so they’re just not going to.
She was using kids in cages as a rhetorical tool to make the case that Trump’s regime was an anomaly to the neoliberal capitalist system but now that Dems have majority she won’t push for any legislation against them. This doesn’t mean that she got corrupted upon assuming office. It’s just standard social fascist behaviour. Same thing with universal healthcare. She was harping about of before now she says this is not the right time to talk about it. A social fascist doing social fascist things.
I def recommend reading over this list to see why AOC is just an opportunist sheepdog for the democrats. The ultimate issue is that the US is a capitalist dictatorship, and anyone trying to “change the system from within” will end up in a collaborationist role.
You can’t convince the rich to vote away their wealth, and you can’t undo bourgeois democracy using bourgeois democracy. Any frank study of US history reveals this process play out hundreds of times in a row, and DSA relies on historical ignorance of that history in order to win people over to the controlled opposition.
Any frank study of US history reveals this process play out hundreds of times in a row, and DSA relies on historical
There should be a book about this. Not just for USA but for all over the world. I see a lot of hubris and “end of history” mindset from people my age while major events happening right now usually have something similar that has happened before from which we can learn. But try watching mainstream news instead and it feels every problem is happening for the first time in history.
My two fav US history books that highlight this process the most, are Settlers, and a people’s history of the US. Of course socdems / demsocs betraying workers is a thing that’s played out in every single country in the past 100 years, but I’ve only read articles, posts, and sections of books that show this for other countries. The most recent one I read was about “euro-communists”, and the soft-left “socialist” parties in western Europe. JFC Fuck those guys.
But ya I’d be interested in Marxist histories of other countries which would unavoidably highlight this process.
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It’s not power that corrupts, it’s motives. AOC’s motive is the accumulation of cloat and the furthering of neoliberalism.
the Democrats only cared about the ICE tragedy - which was previously overseen by Obama, btw - because they could use it as a means of obtaining support against Trump. They’ve stopped talking about it, simply because it no longer benefits them to - in fact it hurts them. They can’t criticize the detainment of immigrants without also outing themselves as supporters of that detainment, so they’re just not going to.
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I think after a certain point, it doesn’t matter a whole lot what her intentions are, when her actions are consistently in support of neoliberalism.
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I’m not conflating her with the DNC, she’s a primary figurehead of the ‘DSA wing of the DNC’ along with ‘the squad’.
She’s very much neoliberal, and always has been.
hey just because her voting record screams neoliberal doesn’t mean she is a neoliberal. she said she is a socialist like those in the UK.
If she was in UK labour, she’d’ve been one of the opportunists who called Corbin an anti-semite.
She was using kids in cages as a rhetorical tool to make the case that Trump’s regime was an anomaly to the neoliberal capitalist system but now that Dems have majority she won’t push for any legislation against them. This doesn’t mean that she got corrupted upon assuming office. It’s just standard social fascist behaviour. Same thing with universal healthcare. She was harping about of before now she says this is not the right time to talk about it. A social fascist doing social fascist things.
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I def recommend reading over this list to see why AOC is just an opportunist sheepdog for the democrats. The ultimate issue is that the US is a capitalist dictatorship, and anyone trying to “change the system from within” will end up in a collaborationist role.
You can’t convince the rich to vote away their wealth, and you can’t undo bourgeois democracy using bourgeois democracy. Any frank study of US history reveals this process play out hundreds of times in a row, and DSA relies on historical ignorance of that history in order to win people over to the controlled opposition.
There should be a book about this. Not just for USA but for all over the world. I see a lot of hubris and “end of history” mindset from people my age while major events happening right now usually have something similar that has happened before from which we can learn. But try watching mainstream news instead and it feels every problem is happening for the first time in history.
My two fav US history books that highlight this process the most, are Settlers, and a people’s history of the US. Of course socdems / demsocs betraying workers is a thing that’s played out in every single country in the past 100 years, but I’ve only read articles, posts, and sections of books that show this for other countries. The most recent one I read was about “euro-communists”, and the soft-left “socialist” parties in western Europe. JFC Fuck those guys.
But ya I’d be interested in Marxist histories of other countries which would unavoidably highlight this process.
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No probs :)
I don’t see any stupidity here. (Unless it’s me being stupid.) She has some goals as a career politician and she is working towards achieving it.