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@Genevievewsws at #Socialism2020 rally today: "Young people have a deep desire to change the world to sweep aside all the violence and human degradation that is brought on by the capitalist system. Politically however their is no outlet outside of our movement for youth"
the ruling class is well aware of the mass disillusionment with the Democratic party. they know the masses of society are moving to the left. It is for this reason that they've put forward their own "left" candidates such as Bernie Sanders
Millions of young people supported Bernie Sanders and they were motivated by genuine statements, and were attracted to his left rhetoric, his attacks on the billionaire class, his occasional and less and less so identification as a socialist. In a word, his class appeal.
Fascists intimidated and rammed the #BidenBus, and #FascistTrump endorsed it. He's planning a #CoupdEtat directing violence against political opponents. Dems wont appeal to the masses to defend democratic rights b/c they fear a mass working class movement. #Thread #Election2020
Don Jr called for the ambush, directly implicating the Trump Admin (as if it weren't already obvious)
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Fascists connected to the Trump admin have already been exposed in several states trying to perform coups as covered here: wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Once again, I've come across that idiotic charge, "You want things to get worse so there will be a revolution." News flash: No serious revolutionary socialist has ever believed that. Things are quite bad enough, thanks. 1/6
As Trotsky said, "In reality the mere existence of privations is not enough to cause an insurrection; if it were, the masses would be always in revolt." What is lacking is not conditions being bad, but political consciousness among the oppressed of a way forward. 2/6
And that consciousness develops in the fight to make things better. The key is this: I believe only the oppressed themselves are capable of waging such a fight; finding a "nicer capitalist" is utterly futile. They are in office to defend interests hostile to our own. 3/6
We're now just moments away from #Socialism2020, sponsored by @haymarketbooks, @jacobinmag, and @DemSocialists!
And the virtual conference has begun with a reading of Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave Is the #FourthOfJuly?" #Socialism2020 teachingamericanhistory.org/library/docume…
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham" - Frederick Douglass #Socialism2020
