We tried to explain our critical marxism in a previous post. Here, whatever the case over Biden, I am often surprised by the stance of the Marxist type left. The DSA wants to take fifty years to build up working support in a revolutionary workers party. They had one in the early twentieth century. But now they have nothing. Given the climate change calamity, we don’t have fity years. We havd maybe five. The left has confused itself: it can’t do anything without the working class, and they once attracted the working class but now they can’t. They can’t even thrust unions anymore: they are run by fat cats as crypto establishment. This is the failed strategy par excellence.
The left needs a new formulation. An focus on the working class is great, but the left must deal with any and all from any class who will join in the effort to create socialism. The idea you have to wait for the working class to do that is almost ridiculous. It won’t happen, and if it did the result would probably fail anyway.
The left is mostly working class itself, and middle class. The left is using nineteenth century jargon in a situation that has changed.
As the pressure to support the lesser evil grows, socialists should be proud that their largest organization is charting a path of independence.
Source: It’s Good That DSA Didn’t Endorse Joe Biden – The Call
