The protests changed me in a lot of ways. One way was, I was by no means a class reductionist before. But the protests really woke me up to the real struggles of oppressed communities in the US and importantly, the revolutionary potential in those communities. I remember listening to Rev Left in my car and had to pull over for a minute to absorb it when Breht said something to the effect of “what did white socialists in America ever give us?! Bernie Sanders!? Fuck that! The real revolutionary potential is with oppressed communities.”
this was a really good read, thank you for writing this. I am the exact same way, how an com is where I want to go, but ML is the most realistic way I see of getting there. Using the best aspects of both to create an ideology that fits our material conditions feels like the best way forward.
