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Cheese Sandwich

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1. Possibly a Corbyn or a Sanders in power could be an ally to help social movements that are
Tue May 24, 2016, 03:46 PM
May 2016

working separately, outside of politics. So like the climate movement, labor, cooperative workplace movement, peace movement, prison reform, internet freedom, and other social movements. Could it make sense to see movements like this as central to any revolution that may or may not be happening? Especially if there were some alliance tying several of these pieces together. Then social democratic politics can be seen as only the political arm of this independent force that commands its own social power separate from politics, if we were doing it right.

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