chapotraphouse

I have been hearing this sentiment over the past three election cycles but let’s be honest, we went from single-payer healthcare being on the table to getting zero concession over a global pandemic to literally silence over any healthcare related agenda through the years.

The fact is that even if 99% of the people support socialism, there is no left wing movement in America to transform these sentiment into actual political movement.

Despite all the talks about third party socialist movements, I literally have no idea what their strategies are to take political power at the heart of global imperialism. Where is the analysis of the principal contradictions of American capitalism? Where are your concrete strategies to take power beyond milquetoast anti-war protests? How are you going to leverage these contradictions to achieve your political goals (real, not imagined/fantasized)?

If the American left cannot answer these questions, there will not be any movement so any kind of leftist rhetoric is going to be useless. Propaganda needs to work side by side with political actions, not in the absence of it.