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@cyclops_psyops @MattHunterMCR Embarassing response

@pkgandakin @MattHunterMCR well they have no power so that's understandable

I think this concern is genuine, and fundamentally there’s isn’t any real structural mechanism to stop an AOC presidency from doing X imperialism. But I think that’s a given regardless of political party in power.

@cyclops_psyops @MattHunterMCR Almost 100% certainly—they’ll have demands, but they won’t be conditional demands

@pkgandakin @MattHunterMCR unconditionally?

@cyclops_psyops @MattHunterMCR They’re definitely supporting AOC without a question

@MattHunterMCR @pkgandakin are you going to advocate for CPUSA to endorse AOC?

imagining the guy having to explain to gavin newsom what just happened in an obscure leftist zoom today and why it boosted his chances of getting the dem presidential nomination

And if AOC cracks down on that struggle it’s a point of rupture for greater class consciousness from purely reformism. So in my mind, that contradiction presented by James is not a point of departure from pushing for an AOC presidency, but one where we can move past just AOC2028

So the question becomes, is the terrain for anti-imperialist struggle better under an AOC presidency compared to Trump, Vance, Harris, (insert milquetoast Dem here)? I think undeniably it is.

this is how im getting to the 2027 convention btw

On the pages of the Atlantic, David Brooks (@DavidBrooks224) begs Democrats to just let democracy die. T.E. Moon (@TEMoon333) responds forcefully: the insurgent progressive wave is rightfully leaving Brooks behind, as it has done every time previously in American history. READ: geesemag.com/articles/david…

I don’t know if a less accurate tweet has ever been posted

They just overplaying their hand. They have no idea how seismic, how exhilarating an AOC presidential run would be to the average leftist voter and stand to simply get blown away by unstoppable political and cultural tides if they refuse to back her. They can’t defeat their base.

what it feels like to know anything about dsa caucuses

We get to choose how we campaign for AOC. We can talk to our friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers about how we can put an end to our money being used to bomb hospitals and schools abroad instead of building and fully funding them here. Full article: shorturl.at/DzrHA

@NondescriptRed It’s called one member one vote buddy. I’m the one member it’s my one vote

it is quite literally ngo-style progressive orgs like the WFP that don’t have 1m1v are yall actually mental

“The active layer of DSA is not set in stone, but when we act like it is we pretty much guarantee it will never change”

GW member Allison K. outlines why member polls and "paper members" are not things to be wary of but instead opportunities to expand the active layer of the organization. Our goal is to stir millions of people into political action; that requires deliberation AND mass input.

@Kholina54321 @tuey2046 Yes it is ! It is them actually reaching the limits of their system and actually learning by fighting the system that alienates them. I say “deprivation” because you are saying that the opposite leads to revolutions failing. That is the only sensible reading. Why are you juggling

@pkgandakin @tuey2046 Who said that I wanted deprivation? That would also be bad. In any case, the problem here is somewhat obvious. People fighting for XYZ, getting it, and being dissatisfied in whatever way, has absolutely nothing to do with if they judge the problem with that to be capitalism.

If we must guide the mass struggle in that direction and make its own truth explicit why do you guys specifically organize around the dream of making life under wage-labour better

You haven’t had enough AOC discourse? Me and @OGBlackRedGuard go back and forth on this podcast (in comradely fashion of course) on electoralism and AOC 28. Hear the arguments below:

We have the opportunity to lead an inspiring campaign for AOC for president, powered by DSA members, that will engage and grow the base for socialist politics. There is currently no other candidate who is running who a majority of DSA members support who supports an arms embargo.

OK let's develop it the reasoning. The increase in wealth is characteristic of capitalism. The expansion of wealth (including proletarian wealth, *not value*) leads people to more open relations to society and more developed selves--this in turn clashes with the limits of the capitalist mode of production. This is why every revolution has followed a period of reform that has been unsatisfying -- that Kerensky was not enough, so we needed PLB. That the aristocrats were not enough, so we need to behead the monarch. Depending on deprivation for revolutionary fervor is ineffective and works against history--we cannot go backwards, we can only show that social democracy and progressive capitalism is not freeing, it is not enough, it is nothing compared to socialism. They are organizing to fight for XYZ, we organize with them, increase their militancy, strength, and radicalism--we educate agitate and organize--and push them past the limit of their activity, push them through, not redirect them to a third, idealistic path that we've cooked up in our heads

@pkgandakin @tuey2046 So basically "Marx said it and that's that"?