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socialist_n_TN

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2. There should be an alliance tying these various pieces together......
Tue May 24, 2016, 07:37 PM
May 2016

but I don't think it can be done outside the purview of a workers' party. Which would leave out Sanders AS A DEMOCRAT. But even workers' parties can still be bamboozled by the nostalgia for the social democratic programs that were won in the last century and are currently under attack by the bourgeoisie world-wide. But a properly run workers party should draw together all of these elements into a cohesive bloc against austerity and ultimately capitalism. And that would be both electorally, as Lenin said "a tribune of the people", and on the streets and in the workplaces where real change will happen.

But eventually even the most radical social democratic political grouping/party must realize that what you are advocating for is currently unaffordable under capitalism. You will have to choose between what you want and capitalism. You can no longer have both.

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