OscailtA Socialist On City Council: A Look At The Career Of Kshama SawantSocialist Faces in High Places2016-05-21T10:40:20+08:00Anarkismoanarkismoeditors@lists.riseup.nethttp://www.anarkismo.net/atomfullposts?story_id=29310http://www.anarkismo.net/graphics/feedlogo.gifFurther politickinghttp://www.anarkismo.net/article/29310#comment162922016-05-21T10:40:20+08:00Waynedrwdprice at aol dot comA very good article. Let me add that Sawant and her party, Socialist Alternative...A very good article. Let me add that Sawant and her party, Socialist Alternative, are continuing electoral maneuvers. SAers have thrown themselves into the Bernie Sanders campaign, being active within the capitalist, racist, imperialist Democratic Party. Within the Sanders' movement, it calls for Sanders (when he is defeated by Hillary Clinton) to run as an independent! But Bernie has repeatedly made clear that if he loses the nomination, he will support Hillary against Trump. Whatever the logic of Sanders' position (and it is people like the Clintons who laid the basis for Trump), it is dishonest of the SA to call for something which they know will not happen. <br />
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It is exciting that so many young people, many from the working class, have been motivated to support a politician such as Sanders who calls himself a "democratic socialist," and is, at least, to the left of the political mainstream. But it does not help the eventual development of these people into revolutionaries for socialists to lie to them (that Sanders' program is socialist, that his program would be adequate to avert capitalist catastrophe, that he would consider a third party run). We have to tell the truth to workers and the youth, popular or unpopular as it may be.