Given it’s an article strictly for IWD and appealing to the broader audience that would read such a piece only because the liberals like taking a socialist holiday and molding it for their own uses, it’s not going to focus on what the US is doing in the realm of imperialism, but a call-to-arms to rally around. The working class’ political development in the US is severely underdeveloped; bring up revolution and overthrowing the capitalist state in every article won’t achieve the goal of radicalization. But getting people on-board with ideas that have broader appeal such as student loan forgiveness and paid sick leave is a great entry to where further radicalization is possible.
Given it’s an article strictly for IWD and appealing to the broader audience that would read such a piece only because the liberals like taking a socialist holiday and molding it for their own uses, it’s not going to focus on what the US is doing in the realm of imperialism, but a call-to-arms to rally around. The working class’ political development in the US is severely underdeveloped; bring up revolution and overthrowing the capitalist state in every article won’t achieve the goal of radicalization. But getting people on-board with ideas that have broader appeal such as student loan forgiveness and paid sick leave is a great entry to where further radicalization is possible.