I will agree with the previous comments...great article! I'm thankful that you have the courage to say what needs to be said and hope that you've inspired others to wake up. Many thanks!!
"The so called socialists in Congress have abandoned the people. Every single one of them voted for the $40 billion Ukraine bill. That included $3.5 billion more in weapons than even Biden had requested. Jamaal Bowman takes the lead as the worst of these fake socialists with his vote to send $1 billion in military funding to Israel. But they are all complicit in their support of the corrupt capitalist Democratic Party.
You can’t support cutting the military budget at the same time as voting for sending money to the military industrial complex in order to arm neo-Nazi battalions in Ukraine. Progressives have lost the last vestiges of credibility they had remaining."
What's missing from the article is that
- AOC and the others said nothing to justify their vote for the war spending. (It seems they hoped we won't notice.)
- Sanders candidacy in 2016 and 2020 was always meant to keep opposition within the Democratic party and bring it behind the eventual candidate. Sanders openly stated this at one point. His attitude to 2024 is thus not new.
- The quotes from Eugene Debs are useful but he doesn't call out the DSA for falsely claiming the legacy of Debs. [SEE BELOW]
The struggle for a party of the working class requires a struggle against all forms of political opportunism (i.e. the interests of the ruling class) within the working class.
It says "we should be angry". Anger isn't enough and it can never replace the historically and scientifically grounded perspective that is really needed and provided by the WSWS.
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... In mid-May, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) congressional slate voted unanimously for a $40 billion bill endorsing the US-led proxy war against Russia. No member of the DSA delegation issued a public statement explaining their vote, and none even so much as tweeted to defend their actions. The DSA evidently hoped that nobody would notice: an article in the DSA-affiliated Jacobin Magazine reported on the passage of the bill but did not mention the votes cast by the DSA’s own members.
On Monday, Jacobin magazine republished a 1916 article by American socialist Eugene Debs opposing the First World War and attacking those who attempt to reconcile “socialism” with support for imperialism. In a written introduction, Jacobin presents itself as the inheritor of Debs’ socialist, anti-war tradition: “This Memorial Day, we should rededicate ourselves to fighting the horrors of war. So here’s a 1916 Eugene Debs piece about why internationalism is at the heart of socialist politics.”
The DSA is not fighting the horrors of war, it is funding them, and Debs’ article is a devastating exposure of the DSA itself.
Excellent article! Thank you!
Well written. Well sourced.
I will agree with the previous comments...great article! I'm thankful that you have the courage to say what needs to be said and hope that you've inspired others to wake up. Many thanks!!
This is correct:
"The so called socialists in Congress have abandoned the people. Every single one of them voted for the $40 billion Ukraine bill. That included $3.5 billion more in weapons than even Biden had requested. Jamaal Bowman takes the lead as the worst of these fake socialists with his vote to send $1 billion in military funding to Israel. But they are all complicit in their support of the corrupt capitalist Democratic Party.
You can’t support cutting the military budget at the same time as voting for sending money to the military industrial complex in order to arm neo-Nazi battalions in Ukraine. Progressives have lost the last vestiges of credibility they had remaining."
What's missing from the article is that
- AOC and the others said nothing to justify their vote for the war spending. (It seems they hoped we won't notice.)
- Sanders candidacy in 2016 and 2020 was always meant to keep opposition within the Democratic party and bring it behind the eventual candidate. Sanders openly stated this at one point. His attitude to 2024 is thus not new.
- The quotes from Eugene Debs are useful but he doesn't call out the DSA for falsely claiming the legacy of Debs. [SEE BELOW]
The struggle for a party of the working class requires a struggle against all forms of political opportunism (i.e. the interests of the ruling class) within the working class.
It says "we should be angry". Anger isn't enough and it can never replace the historically and scientifically grounded perspective that is really needed and provided by the WSWS.
QUOTE
... In mid-May, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) congressional slate voted unanimously for a $40 billion bill endorsing the US-led proxy war against Russia. No member of the DSA delegation issued a public statement explaining their vote, and none even so much as tweeted to defend their actions. The DSA evidently hoped that nobody would notice: an article in the DSA-affiliated Jacobin Magazine reported on the passage of the bill but did not mention the votes cast by the DSA’s own members.
On Monday, Jacobin magazine republished a 1916 article by American socialist Eugene Debs opposing the First World War and attacking those who attempt to reconcile “socialism” with support for imperialism. In a written introduction, Jacobin presents itself as the inheritor of Debs’ socialist, anti-war tradition: “This Memorial Day, we should rededicate ourselves to fighting the horrors of war. So here’s a 1916 Eugene Debs piece about why internationalism is at the heart of socialist politics.”
The DSA is not fighting the horrors of war, it is funding them, and Debs’ article is a devastating exposure of the DSA itself.
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/31/kswd-m31.html