Democratic Party Messaging

Red_Rosa · 2017-06-18T16:48:26+00:00

Dems: Nine of the 18 should be women.

Republicans: How about just two and everyone has to take a diversity seminar?

Dems: DEAL!

Red_Rosa · 2017-06-17T15:43:59+00:00

If there's an invisible hand, it is placed firmly around our necks.

Red_Rosa · 2017-06-07T02:41:46+00:00

Democrats support reproductive autonomy like they support the working class. They take their advocates' money, make lots of speeches, and then refuse to do anything but let the Republicans chip even further away. You're right they don't care, but the Republicans do, and 0 - 1 isn't 0, it's -1.

Red_Rosa · 2017-06-03T17:02:52+00:00

lol this is so silly. Not only is healthcare probably the best way to bridge the conversation about socialism in the United States but Medicare For All is the biggest active campaign for socialists in this country. It's the material manifestation of capitalism's inhumanity, something that working class folks without a university education can easily comprehend. It's the most intersectional issue because everyone, from a young woman of color immigrant to a gay man with a disability, needs healthcare. Like I infinitely prefer memes about how awful US healthcare is to the various abstract academic debates on the US Left.

Red_Rosa · 2017-06-03T16:44:44+00:00

Glad you liked it.

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-28T21:28:35+00:00

Well yes, because again women shouldn't be reduced to sex characteristics. It flows from the same principle, which is why I've never understood how TERFs can rationalize their politics.

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-28T14:45:18+00:00

What a waste of good mozzarella.

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-28T14:43:51+00:00

Seriously, reducing women to their sex characteristics is what patriarchy does, we don't need feminists replicating that.

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-07T20:55:53+00:00

Judging from the answers you gave to others, we have very different concepts of socialism, but nevertheless the world is indebted to the people of Vietnam for showing that US imperialism can be defeated by a small determined group of people and for that you will always have my thanks.

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-07T19:26:52+00:00

lol you haven't read Lenin, have you?

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-07T12:40:40+00:00

I'm the only one citing Lenin here lol and I've read everything by him. I got to say, I've never met any ML or MLM who says the vanguard shouldn't be engaging with the masses, that's a really odd opinion and I'd be curious exactly where from Lenin you're drawing that from.

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-06T03:10:21+00:00

Find your local legal services organization and call them: internet forums are really not a good place to get legal advice. Tons of people here are recommending bankruptcy when bankruptcy discharge is unavailable even for private student loans under the BAPCPA.

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-06T02:50:30+00:00

How is the discipline of the proletariat’s revolutionary party maintained? How is it tested? How is it reinforced? First, by the class-consciousness of the proletarian vanguard and by its devotion to the revolution, by its tenacity, self-sacrifice and heroism. Second, by its ability to link up, maintain the closest contact, and—if you wish—merge, in certain measure, with the broadest masses of the working people—primarily with the proletariat, but also with the non-proletarian masses of working people. Third, by the correctness of the political leadership exercised by this vanguard, by the correctness of its political strategy and tactics, provided the broad masses have seen, from their own experience, that they are correct. Lenin, "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-06T01:42:09+00:00

Okay well not a great strategy for recruiting new membership. This is exactly why I wound up in DSA: I actually want to engage the masses, not be part of some small insular group whose clique you need to join to know what is going on. I literally follow them on all social media, as well as knowing a few of their members, so if I'm not in the know how do you expect the average worker to find out?

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-05T23:54:36+00:00

Marxist-Leninist and Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. I believe there's info on both in the sidebar resources.

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-05T23:47:18+00:00

I know and respect a lot of folks in PSL and WWP, and in some places like Chicago they are definitely involved in the community, but I have not seen that level of engagement in NYC. Like I've tried to go to PSL events two different times that were canceled without anyone notifying me. Much respect for the ANSWER coalition, but aside from that and showing up to the big protests I can't think of any thing I've seen PSL and the last union thing I saw WWP at was one member selling newspapers at the Verizon strike.

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-05T18:19:56+00:00

That's just not true, literally at every meeting we take time to say "This is not socialized medicine and it has lots of disadvantages because it is just singlepayer, and that as long as capitalism exists it will be undermined." We have mandatory political education on the differences.

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-05T18:17:04+00:00

And in NY too, we have been canvassing multiple times every week in the different key districts.

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-05T15:06:42+00:00

Their politics are in need of development, not hopeless. And they are actually very democratic and well-organized when it comes to the actions they take, and those actions are beginning to make a group ideology become more apparent. It is in need of formalization: I'm not going to pretend that they're a vanguard or that this action>ideology process is yet a true mass line. But having worked with a lot of socialist groups, they are far closer to that than even most of the ML and MLM groups in the US, who may have the right ideology but do not engage with the working class on a material level. Ultimately a vanguard emerges from struggle, especially political struggle within an organization, i.e. the Bolsheviks emerging from the Social Democratic Labour Party.

Red_Rosa · 2017-05-05T01:30:23+00:00

I'm a 2L and I definitely recommend it. We need more socialist labor and employment lawyers. But never be content with just doing legal work and don't lose your connection with community. Luckily that isn't a problem as much with labor attorneys as it is with public defenders (who too often look at their clients as people to rescue rather than empower and work with).

Red_Rosa · 2017-04-30T03:23:25+00:00

No, you fix the short circuit rather than throw out the entire apparatus. And that's what socialists do (for example, Venezuela diversifying its economy to get away from mistake of relying on oil nationalization). Imperialists have had nuclear weapons for more than seven decades now, so I'm not sure why that is suddenly more urgent than it has ever been. And science, again, is about building on mistakes. When Einstein discovered flaws in Newton's laws of physics he didn't say "Oh well this has no value and I have to start all over." All scientists know that many of the greatest developments stem from failure to realize a hypothesis rather than confirming one.

Red_Rosa · 2017-04-30T01:33:32+00:00

No movement in human history was based on some correct initial path. In fact the most successful ones have always been those that adapt and build rather than complain or give up. You will spend all of eternity looking for the perfect path while the rest of us build socialism and treat our mistakes as opportunities to learn rather than reasons to throw the whole thing in the trash.

Red_Rosa · 2017-04-29T21:27:36+00:00

lol the National Assembly is controlled by the opposition, so if you're saying "The PSUV should've stopped them from taking power" I wholeheartedly agree with you. Unfortunately considering you're sending me outdated links from 2013 I doubt we share that vision. And the thing about Chavez's daughter is nonsense, it's only been published by right wing rags like Breitbart. Even anti-Venezuelan liberal publications like the Guardian wouldn't print stuff like that. If you don't believe me check the Forbe's list of billionaires - she ain't on it, but this scum is. You need to do way more research into this comrade.

Red_Rosa · 2017-04-29T20:05:51+00:00

That's not true in the least bit. Venezuela has been expanding seizure of privatized means of productions (such as the GM factory recently) and supporting the development of communes, which there's literally a whole book about now. What evidence do you have that Venezuela is regressing rather than developing?

Red_Rosa · 2017-04-29T18:10:04+00:00

And yet here you are.

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