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2026-07-06 00:22 UTC
DSA candidates are beholden to the demands of the working class, not the Democratic or Republican party nor capitalist donations.
A socialist entering a capitalist government does not make that government socialist. The government’s class function remains bourgeois, and the socialist is pressured to act as a bourgeois minister in order to get their (generally minor) reforms through.
Additionally, electing candidates to deliver material gains is only a single aspect of DSA. Along with mutual aid, labor organizing, and International solidarity campaigns to name a few
Not really related to the criticism I was making at all.
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@Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 2026-07-06 03:06
“Organise!” Rabochaya Mysl keeps repeating to the workers in all keys, and all the adherents of the “economist” trend echo the cry. We, of course, wholly endorse this appeal, but we will not fail to add: organise, but not only in mutual benefit societies, strike funds, and workers’ circles; organise also in a political party; organise for the determined struggle against the autocratic government and against the whole of capitalist society. Without such organisation the proletariat will never rise to the class- conscious struggle… Not a single class in history has achieved power without producing its political leaders, its prominent representatives able to organise a movement and lead it.