The Revolution Will Be Localized: National Political Battles Are Reaching Into Dallas Elections
Cold, quiet weekday afternoon. One of my favorite East Dallas sausage and egg places, Barbecs on Garland Road, is still as the tomb, empty but for this table, where a waitress hovers over five of us with a pot of hot coffee. Here I am, chatting up a table full of communists.
No, I dont mean East Dallas guitar instructors. I mean communists. These people are members of the Socialist Workers Party. One of them, Alyson Kennedy, is running for mayor of Dallas. Shes the one who tells me I can call her a communist or a socialist.
I kind of use them interchangeably, she says. I dont think theres much difference.
Except for one thing. She does not want to be confused with the better-known socialist who ran for president in 2016: When we tell people were Socialist Workers Party, she says, some people say, Oh, youre Bernie Sanders. So we explain were not like Bernie Sanders.
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