Bruenig is precisely the wrong person to be talking about this and as such he picked a terrible fucking example sucks but the enfolding of social movements and activists into the state is an INCREDIBLY important discussion for the left to be
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
having. This is EXACTLY what happened to the Latin American left, the social movements were bought off and incorporated into the state, become essentially clientelist networks of political parties instead of sites of mass mobilization to push for
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
radical demands, and do you know what happened? The left was COMPLETELY destroyed. The Workers Party in Brazil is a perfect example of this, they neutered the left so thoroughly that even the general strike became a completely ineffective tool,
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
and when the fascists came there was jack shit the left could do because they literally had lost the capacity for sustained mobilization that the independent social movements had. This pattern is repeated across Latin America and EVERY. SINGLE.
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
TIME. the result is complete disaster. So yeah we should be talking about the dangers of cooption, the risks of having movements with leaders who can be bought off and of working within the state and the party system to achieve your goals.
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
We should be doing it because independent social movements have been shown to be again and again, from Venezuela 2002 to Bolivia 2008, our only line of defense against fascism and our best line of attack against capitalism.
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
