• Compass Inspector@invariant-marxism.red
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    1 year ago

    I’m confused- you call for a socialist party that is completely free of bourgeois influence which I agree with, but then you namedrop the DSA - a “big tent” reformist group. DSA members run as democrats in elections and they endorse democratic candidates, so they definitely aren’t free of bourgeoisie influence.

    The capitalist regime will never allow a peaceful transition of power to a socialist party - through voting or otherwise. History has shown this repeatedly. “Democratic rights” are exercised in a manner that serves the interests of the bourgeoisie, thus democracy is nothing but a smokescreen for the dictatorship of Capital.

    “The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” --Marx

    Most importantly, we should emphasize internationalism over localism. Capitalism is international and globally inter-linked, so must be the struggle for socialism.

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1957/fundamentals.htm

    • OrangeSlice@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I agree with your assesment of the DSA, but our audience here isn’t ready for that. I want them to get into the DSA where we can continue trashing on them until they do something more useful.

      They aren’t going to go from defending Democratic Party failures to Maoist Third-Worldist guerilla fighters (the correct sect of socialists, of course) overnight.