The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox.
- Malcolm X
Anyone who is serious about socialism should recognize that if the vast majority of workers who want social programs and a more equal society are being trapped in a bourgeois, capitalist, imperialist party, that party is their main enemy that must be defeated before anything else can even happen. If you can’t organize a fighting force for proletarians that recognizes who their enemies are, you’re not equipped for taking on the other fascists yet either.
Also note that when socialists express this kind of sentiment, one of the most common responses from liberals is that anti-electoral socialists are too much of a fringe ideology to get any kind of mass movement going, so they necessarily have to go through the Democratic party to do anything. But the only way that Democrats are staying relevant ATM is by coopting socialism with people like Mamdani and AOC!
They will Co opt it just long enough to neuter their threat.
It’s the good cop/bad cop dynamic but instead of being in an interrogation room, the whole of “acceptable political discourse” is that room within which we are currently trapped.
It’s funny how when you complain about the good cop, Liberals point to how bad the bad cop is.
