Democratic Socialist

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78. Leftist politics is about capitalism...

and its devastating effects on social arrangements. If you disagree that's fine but people should not try to co-opt leftist politics into liberal/progressive capitalist reform as if capitalist reform if the final word on the actual left. That is the point.

And again...the responsibility of actual leftists is to point out the failure of Capitalism for the WHOLE of the working class and the people, to point out the oppressive relationship between Capital and Labor under the capitalist modes of production, to point out class struggle and bring class analysis to the table, to point out the property question and theft of the commons ( who owns and controls what and why), and to deal in objective material reality and the facts on the ground for the WHOLE of the working class.

Leftist politics is about power and resources and who controls them. Leftists want that power in the hands of the working class as a whole. Leftist politics is not about lip-service and feel good platitudes that have no basis in objective reality when Capital dominates and controls all economic, political, and social relations. Bernie can change the narrative, but Bernie is swimming against the tides of Capital and objective material reality if he thinks his or our demands will be met while the power structure remains beholden to a capitalist ruling class that OWNS all the power.