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!
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.