Tag: Democratic Socialists of America

The Semantics of “Socialism” in a Changing World

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Semantics of “Socialism” in a Changing World

Around the world, the terms “Socialism” and “Communism” suddenly took on new meanings, once again. Socialism referred to patriotic, anti-Soviet political organizations that sought to get elected, and gradually transition toward a more egalitarian society, one step at a time. Communism referred to the parties aligned with the Soviet Union that adopted Marxism-Leninism as their ideology and ultimately sought to seize power in a revolutionary situation. However, the Communist Parties were also always critical of “ultra-leftism” and calls for violence, and the Soviet Union urged them to not be parties of extremism, isolated from the masses of people.

Jacobin and Democratic Socialists of America promote illusions in a “progressive” Biden administration

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Jacobin and Democratic Socialists of America promote illusions in a “progressive” Biden administration

The political role of Jacobin and the DSA is to prevent at all costs a political break with bourgeois politics in general and the Democratic Party in particular. Theirs is the politics of the upper middle class, which is determined by the effort, on the one hand, to obtain positions for themselves within the state apparatus and, on the other hand, to prevent an independent mobilization of the working class against capitalism and for socialism.

H/T: Howell Underground on YouTube

Socialists should not vote for Joe Biden

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

As the US presidential election draws nearer, the pressure to fall in behind Joe Biden grows ever greater. Predictably, most of the social democratic and liberal left are promoting the former vice president, even if some remain squeamish about formally endorsing him. More surprising has been the unprecedented step taken by a number of respected socialists, most notably Dan La Botz, to advocate voting for a man who called on police to shoot Black Lives Matter demonstrators in the leg.

Socialists should not vote for Joe Biden

The Progressive International, a Global Green New Deal and the Limits of ‘Left Unity’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Progressive International, a Global Green New Deal and the Limits of ‘Left Unity’ — Ebb Magazine

One must not allow oneself to be misled by the cry for ‘unity.’ Those who have this word most often on their lips are those who sow the most dissension… Those unity fanatics are either the people of limited intelligence who want to stir everything up together into one nondescript brew, which, the moment it is left to settle, throws up the differences again in much more acute opposition because they are now all together in one pot … or else they are people who consciously or unconsciously … want to adulterate the movement.

Frederick Engels, June 1873