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Even if I didn’t have my own opinions on what the correct use of electoralism is and from what party, the fact still remains that this is an approach and strategy that never helped neither the working class nor the socialist movement materialy in any way.
Electoralism helped establish policies like the minimum wage, workplace health and safety protections, anti-discrimination measures, etc. Each of these policies absolutely, unquestionably helps the working class. You can (and should) say that none of these are enough, and that they’ve been rolled back over time, but to write them off completely is doomerist nonsense.
Electoralism is also leading the charge to challenge the stigmatization of socialism in American politics, which is a prerequisite to growing any meaningful socialist movement. If every single politician is rabidly opposed to any sort of anti-capitalist ideology you never get any mainstream discussion on the topic. Capitalism just gets taken for granted; it’s so orthodox it never even gets mentioned. But if you get even a few politicians who are willing to challenge capitalist orthodoxy even occasionally, suddenly you mainstream the issue of capitalism and alternatives to it.
You don’t want to put all your eggs in the electoral basket, but ignoring the most visible and most easily-accessible levers of political power in this country is a recipe for failure.
Electoralism is also leading the charge to challenge the stigmatization of socialism in American politics,
Yes but only by running real socialists. By running CIA-socialists like the Dems do you do not destigmatize actual socialism so much as pervert the word to mean social democrats which is exactly what the bourgeoisie would like to do. They want people’s conceptions of what is possible on the left to be no more than welfare capitalism built off the exploitation of the global south.
If you really want to change things you need to run on actual socialist platforms. PSL and maybe PCUSA seem like the best parties for that. They have the most members, good platforms, good ground organizing outside of elections.
You don’t want to put all your eggs in the electoral basket, but ignoring the most visible and most easily-accessible levers of political power in this country is a recipe for failure.
Entryism into the Democrats is doomed to failure. If you do this you are not only foolish but you are wasting precious time and energy. They have decades of experience subverting attempts at pulling them left even into Bernie-liberal territory. Biden and his success with Republicans has convinced them to move further right. Besides they are fundamentally a party of capital. They serve capitalism, they will rig things, they will cheat, they will lie, they will change rules all to keep even minor reformists away from power and from raising taxes on those they serve.
By running CIA-socialists like the Dems do
Who have the Dems run who is a “CIA socialist”? How are you defining that?
If you really want to change things you need to run on actual socialist platforms.
Universal healthcare isn’t a socialist platform?
Entryism into the Democrats is doomed to failure.
It’s downright laughable to say this when we’re only a few months out from Bernie leading the Democratic primary, and when we keep seeing Bernie-esque candidates knock off centirst Dems at lower levels.
