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A Tale of Two Comments: How to Move the US Left Forward to Socialism? (from S4A Livestream 128)

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Great piece on what it means to be a communist on a personal level and how a communist party should support its candidates as they prove themselves for full membership and beyond 👇

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I'll be streaming live on Twitch on Thursday, May 29 at 1 PM Pacific/4 PM Eastern/8 PM UTC.

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Learn Revolutionary Socialist Fundamentals! 🔻👇

Theses on Fundamental Tasks of the 2nd Congress of the Communist International (1920) by Lenin, human-read audiobook + explanatory discussion

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Liberal and Marxist Conceptions of the Class Struggle (1913) by Lenin. Marxist Audiobook + Discussion

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Was Eugene Debs really Bernie Sanders' Hero?

Human-read audiobook + discussion of This Is Our Year: But Two Parties and But One Issue (1912) by Eugene V. Debs, socialist candidate for US President & IWW labor union co-founder.

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Bernie Sanders and the Lesson of Occupy Wall Street: How the US Left Got Where It Is Today

Is Bernie Sanders pulling more US Americans left, or is he limiting their sense of what's politically possible on behalf of the Democratic Party?

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“Fake Lefties” vs. the "Berniessance" | Reacting to Secular Talk/Vanguard (from #S4A Livestream 127)

Watching & critiquing pro-Berniepalooza comments in videos by Secular Talk/Kyle Kulinski and The Vanguard YouTube channels + livestream chat & discussion

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People keep asking me to respond to this Trotskyite RCA video about how Trump isn't a fascist, but I got 10 minutes in on double-speed and had to bail. Utter waste of time unless you're a devoted follower of Ted Grant. Trots strike again!

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Replying to Bernie Comments 2: Whose Movement Is It? + Keyholder🔑 Chat (from S4A Livestream 127)

Reading & critiquing pro-Bernie comments left on S4A videos + more discussion of the #Keyholder🔑 #VoteStrike proposal

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Replying to Bernie Comments 1: For an Organized #VoteStrike Against Dems (from S4A Livestream 127)

What is the #Keyholder🔑 Movement? Marxism-Leninism-Donglism? Socialist discussion of building an independent left party & advancing its platform while keeping the Dems in check.

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Let's Talk About Fighting Oligarchy…Marxist-ly | Bernie & AOC vs Trump & Musk: Will Capitalism Win?

Social-Democracy Against Socialism in the Era of Decaying Capitalism, Fascism, & Proletarian Revolutions

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I'll be streaming live this Thursday, 4/24 on Twitch at 1 PM Pacific/4 PM Eastern/8 PM UTC.

Topic: Trump's first 100 days, the Democrats' response, including the Bernie/AOC "Fight Oligarchy" rally tour, and strategies for the US left to build independent political power.

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geordi meme: no to liberal guilt, yes to socialist anti-imperialism & decolonialism

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Golden Public Lavatories | "The Importance of Gold Now and After the Complete Victory of Socialism" (1921) Lenin. Human-read audiobook + discussion.

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On the Bernie Sanders-AOC "Anti-Oligarchy" Rallies

Social-democratic reformists like Bernie Sanders exist to channel working class anger back into the "left wing" of capitalism.

I eagerly supported Sanders in 2016 as a major step forward with the hope that he'd take the obvious opportunity to lead 10s of millions of people out of the Democratic Party. He not only refused but barely spoke out about the ways the Democratic Party had unfairly fought back against the huge, anti-status quo, pro- #MedicareForAll movement he'd rallied. This is in line with the 1990s deal he made with the Vermont Democratic Party that if he didn't start a labor party, they wouldn't seriously challenge him (see link at bottom).

Bernie did the same again in 2020 but worse, rolling over for his "good friend Joe" Biden as soon as the pandemic broke out. He's been totally irrelevant ever since. Remember the "working groups" the Dems granted Bernie following his caving for Biden? They were a joke. The groups were sabotaged and ignored, and the right-wing Biden administration ultimately helped to pave the way for a rested-and-ready return of a significantly more extreme Trump in 2025.

The rank-and-file people who are following Bernie, wanting him to do something real, are some of the most progressive people in the USA, but they're completely wasting their time with Bernie as a "leader." The US left consequently continues to be stuck with no major labor movement and no major anti-imperialist political leaders.

If your "left" "leaders" are still promoting the 1%-owned, genocidal-imperialist Democratic Party as part of a solution to the problems facing the US working class and the exploited and oppressed of the global south, they're not leaders; they're misleaders. It can be a hard truth to face, but it is true. We need a militant, anti-capitalist labor movement fighting for socialism at home and to dismantle the empire abroad.

If Bernie had led a 10M or 15M-voter chunk out of the 50M-member Democratic Party (into the Greens or into a newly established labor party), the Dems clearly and obviously never would be able to get elected again without the left -- and in a way that would matter and couldn't be hidden from the public discussion. That would bring the left into the light and put our agenda on the table, putting the rest of the struggle's success on our own, internal politics to bring the correct ideas, strategies, and tactics to the fore. Most of the real fight still would be outside the electoral system, but we wouldn't just be flat-ignored by the mainstream any longer, and this would pull so many more demoralized and disheartened workers back into the fight.

If you and I can figure this out, so can Bernie. He knows; it's just not what he wants to do. Ask yourself, why is that?

Capitalists' so-called "anti-fascism" is extremely limited, consisting of certain idealists who want to try to fix the problems of capitalism's crises of profitability in less brutal ways than just open terrorism, but even when they're successful in the short term, they absolutely do not have a long-term solution to the capitalism's inevitable decline and are wasting the global working class's time.

"Who has betrayed us? Social democrats!" became a slogan almost a century ago for good reason. It's in social-fascism's nature to oppose the working class and give capitalism time to prepare "emergency" (fascist) measures to protect itself. Bernie Sanders, working with the Dems, is no exception.

source: https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/04/13/bernie-sanders-fighting-oligarchy-rally-with-alexandrai-ocasio-cortez/

source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/21/bernie-out-of-the-closet-sanders-longstanding-deal-with-the-democrats/

source: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-endorses-joe-biden/story?id=70123451

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On "Leftist Infighting" | The Historical Meaning of the Inner-Party Struggle in Russia (1910) by Lenin. Marxist audiobook + discussion.