tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post1273585609089410024..comments2024-03-10T09:53:06.804-07:00Comments on ZZ's blog: Wake Me When It’s Overzoltan zigedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376602245528691381noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post-70904163805087785432015-08-02T10:03:34.791-07:002015-08-02T10:03:34.791-07:00Unfortunately our local vanguard party (Kshama Saw...Unfortunately our local vanguard party (Kshama Sawant's Socialist Alternative) is supporting Sanders (but NOT endorsing him). A double whammy. Unprincipled support for a faux socialist is not something to be built on.LJansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15841902184663361182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post-74047057483924362892015-08-02T02:37:21.524-07:002015-08-02T02:37:21.524-07:00Regarding "institutional inertia", in my...Regarding "institutional inertia", in my view, the real problem is the complete lack of credible left wing alternative. This has many reasons but the current two party system (with inertia) is just a very partial explanation for this. The real reason is that the Left has been killed and it's still dead. I can count the real leftish politicians (whether they call themselves politicians or not) on a single hand.<br /><br />The reasons are multiple. With the implosion of the Eastern Block, the left lost a lot of credibility. In the USA this has been compounded with phenomenal ideological brain washing and the complete degradation of education. Racism and xenophobia have done a lot to divide the working class. Remember Occupy and its (well predictable) crushing. Disillusioned lower middle class whites infected with completely useless anarchist idiocy could be suppressed in a few days with essentially a single sweep of the police. It had been infiltrated by the political police (FBI etc) in a matter of days.<br /><br />So the left has to be rebuilt, but outside the party system. Using the revolutional vanguard party modell of the early 20th century. That worked. The USA (and its block) will implode sooner or later, and it will crash very fast, surprising most people. The contradictions of capitalism cannot be hidden too long. The left has to be prepared for THAT, just as the left was prepared when Tsarism produced its inevitable implosion.<br />Balázshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08002660618727546660noreply@blogger.com