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Senate votes against Sanders resolution to force human rights scrutiny over Israel aid
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You directly said that grassroots activism, ie Unionization, is akin to grassroots genocide, so I'm glad you're walking that statement back.
The Democrats will not change if you work with them or join them, yes, neither will the Republicans, and third parties will absolutely never gain any traction without significant grassroots change like Unionization.
By voting third party without building up mass grassroots change, you're spoiling your vote and enabling fascism. You can't just vote a third party into office without genuine pressure from the bottom.
Again, read Reform or Revolution. You can't change the Dems, and you can't change the two party system itself, via voting. You understand that the dems can't change, so then why do you think the entire US can change just with electoralism?
I made it 15 minutes through the paper you recommended and then gave up because there doesn't seem to be a conclusion anywhere just a massive irrelevant story.
I don't even know who she's referencing in her story and I'm sure as hell not going to read some bank simp paper to find out.
I can recommend you this podcast that perfectly predicted every single thing that is happening today in America and israel. From an actual progressive that can use coherent words. The weird thing is that this was recorded two years ago. And it feels like this podcast was recorded yesterday
https://youtu.be/69pEzsfX8Aw?t=26m44s
Reform or Revolution is one of the most foundational writings in leftist history, so if this is just "some paper" to you and not the seminal work taking down the nonsense that is electoralism then you're either a fed, or found the wrong paper. If you didn't read Rosa Luxembourg's masterwork and just happened to find some random progressive, then you get a pass, otherwise you've successfully outed yourself as a fed.
Recommending Hedges over Rosa Luxembourg, pretending he's "an actual progressive that can use coherent words" while Rosa herself isn't, is nothing short of pathetic. Hedges fancies himself a Marxist, yet you seem to ignore every single Marxist writer in history.
If Hedges is telling you that virtue signaling is all that matters, and that grassroots, bottom-up movements that stand to shift the very foundation that the two party system rests on is a waste of time, then neither you nor Hedges are leftists at all and are merely grifters and feds.
Reevaluate your positions and values. If you truly care about the Proletariat, then accept that electoralism is purely loss prevention and make an actual difference in people's lives. Support a local Socialist candidate, join or start a union, and actually read theory, rather than getting your brain rotted out by podcast bros.
Chris Hedges, the guy who sued Obama over the illegal arrest laws.
Is a fed.
It's clear that you didn't manage to watch anything of that video lol.
I classify your linked paper as trash because of the insane overusage of thesaurus. It's like someone needed to pad their essay with big words to look smart. The sentences aren't complex they are just overcomplicated. I'm not reading 10 chapters of that. Bernie's results prove more than that paper could ever.
Thatcher is classified as genius too by some. Don't need to read it to know it's stupid.