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This is basically the DSA thesis, right? The problem they are going to run into is, eventually, they're just going to ban DSA members from running in their primaries. They will not allow their party to be taken over by entryism

Good, that's what we want, third parties only become viable when the dem elites dispense with the kayfabe and shut progressives and future leftists out of the current poltical process

But unfortunately that means we have to keep pushing a kayfabe of our known, which is entryism into the Democratic Party, so that rupture can be triggered in the first place

And the fact figures like Zohran and even those dipshits AOC and Bernie maintain high popularity while simultaneously the Democratic Party in general is at historic lows, tells us the groundwork for an internal split is already in place

The Correct Dialectical Take

I was so proud of our large son for signing up for the Flotilla, and he goes and says this.

I'm pretty sure that was V*ush

Imagine being able to type "the democrats can try to ... fight fascism" without laughing too hard to click "post".

You don't understand you fucking ultra, he's not steering people back into the Democratic Party he's telling you to build a progressive insurgency WITHIN the Democrat Party. It's ENTIRELY different!! /s

I mean, he has a Political Science degree. He's clearly well-read. I think his perspective is warped by his proximity to the Democrats, and I think that's intentional on their part. When you look at how often they embrace progressives and then smother them into the fold, dull their teeth, and blunt their edges, while retaining their radical language, it's a clear pattern and tactic they adhere to. The entire western-leftist project is predicated on stifling revolutionary sentiment, building frameworks of critique that are unactionable, or whose actions steer you back into the neoliberal system. The Democrats, to me, appear to be doing exactly that. They are the final dam holding back leftist progress in this country. They are the revolutionary lightning rod, grounding revolutionary sentiment into the earth and preventing it from doing any actual damage. The Democrats need someone like Hasan as an unwitting Shepherd, leading the flock back into the fence. If they stopped allowing him to engage with candidates, what would be left for Hasan to do? If the Democrats purged current and former DSA members from their ranks, and bared future DSA members from their ranks, what would be left for the DSA to do?

I think it's good that he helps bring new people to the left and I sympathize with people who aren't openly "communist" but try to ease people in at first, but god damn I wish he was less of a radlib. Supporting a neo-nazi blackwater merc because he supports free healthcare (how low can the bar get?) Is just... Gross.

But he is a streamer lol, and afaik he does more good than harm, so I'll bregrudgingly accept him ;^)

Are you single handedly bringing back forum signatures? Holy shit you're the coolest person in the fediverse.

(to my knowledge he hasn't even gotten to speak to Zoran

Of course he's spoken with Zohran, which is part of why Cuomo decided to make "Zohran won't condemn Hasan 'America Deserved 9/11' Piker" an absurdly prominent part of the latter stretch of his campaign.

It sounds like to me you're equating building a working class party with accelerationism. Accelerationism is a term I don't fully agree with as a cohesive framework or ideology. Are the Greens accelerationists in the American context? Are Green voters Accelerationists by extension?

I know that's not what you're saying. It just sounds that way. Accelerationism is the fools gold of ideological perspectives. It ignores the interconnected realities of monopoly capital and imperialism. You can only sharpen the contradictions so far before forces outside your sphere of influence make corrective measures. For example, the Chinese economy can't collapse for the same reason why the American economy can't. They are deeply interconnected. The worst you get is a slow controlled descent, a managed decline. Look at how often Trump dipped the stock market with rhetoric and tariffs only to back off and now effectively "stabilize" with much effort from China and our own capitalists.

So I'm not willing to accept this idea that you engage with the Democrats or you don't and accept your fate as an "accelerationist". The PSL is right there, the run candidates, they're running more this year then I've seen. Why pretend you can move a mountain? When instead you could be helping build one? By his own admission he's been doing this for 12 years. He's seen Sanders betrayed. AOC become the AOCapitulator running cover for Zionists and the rule of law. The Democrats aid a genocide and turn to the right, fail to do anything while aiding fascists in terrorizing and killing people within it's own borders. All this and he still thinks entryism is the right path?

If that's not delusion I guess I don't know what is.

I don't know that he has ever admitted to being an ML. He quotes Lenin's What Is To Be Done selectively, and I feel deceptively, to support this tactic of entryism which has clearly not born fruit. Democrat support is dropping along side Trump support. It's clear, and has been clear, by his own analysis, for years, that the Dems are not the opposition party. Because of the way the DNC is structured party loyalists and legacy Democrats have outsized power. If there was ever a time to challenge their position now seems like the moment leading into midterms. Not hitching your wagon for another ride, but actually building a working class party. The pressure can't come from within, that's their home turf, they control all the forces in that space. The pressure has to come from outside. They have to be forced to respond to actual political pressure. I don't think he's going to get what he wants out of this. Preserving capitalism is more important then winning elections.

He quotes Lenin all the time over various contexts, more often correctly than not

He also trashed Platner in no uncertain terms and hasn't advocated for him since