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@joewrote The Democratic Party is not a bourgeois workers party.

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@RedFrontTweeter I think a united party of the left and right oppositions that attempted to reclaim communism from the PCE (the party of the republican landlords and petty bourgeois) was a worthwhile project. Trotsky was a sectarian and the POUM should have been the model for the 4I.

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@abhagvasur @PEWilliams_ Primaries are stupid to begin with (parties should be strong organisations controlled by their active membership) and open primaries take that even further by putting nominations in the hands of people who aren’t even nominal members.

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@_ericblanc 1916 was the only significant time they did this and it was a disaster. Benson was a terrible candidate and his anti-war convictions proved to be as thin as plywood.

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@Weasel9100 Sorry, the personality is illusory, party politics is elucidating

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@Hamasnik2 @NicolasDVillar1 The question of workers’ power is entirely absent from this program, which means it can only be a program for a progressive military government.

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@CatRedFront You’ve mistaken the lack of party organisations for the lack of parties. The words Democrat and Republican have political meanings, and command the loyalty of sections of the population. They’re parties regardless of their lack of central organs, which the caucuses also lack.

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@davidryanhenry @EarthoOS This is literally a Jim Crow strategy.

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@Michelle_Rent @vic_socialists VS has announced like 50 candidates but go off I guess https://t.co/xg5cxXN2GC

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@centristmarxist @GroundworkDSA @SciSocialist DSA Jacobite caucus

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@ArchonAvalon @sinnersoviet3 @avispartan1 We don’t need to because no one claims they are.

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@SamuraiApology @serf_avenger American parties are organisationally weak but mostly politically coherent, meaning even a rebel socialist is incentivised to be a team player, lest they lose re-nomination for not being a good Democrat. The voters themselves enforce discipline, not the whip.

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@SamuraiApology @serf_avenger Britain’s system is preferable, because at least most people can conceive of politics outside of Labour and the Tories. The broadness of American parties is suffocating in its own way.

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@Bobpop10111 @kingnothing1312 @ProductOfLabor In that he bound labour to the Democrats and ended the possibility of a mass independent workers party? Yes

In that he alleviated the depression? No, the strongest growth for the left was after 1933, not before it. Immiseration alone is not correlated with class struggle.

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@tristanbard0516 @centristmarxist It deliberately conflates any participation in elections with a parliamentary road to power; either you are an abstentionist or a reformist, and no other position is possible. I think it's totally thought-terminating.

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@Tank_Boi_12 @LyreonArt @krishixhyas @harbingerofwoke ..DSA itself, but comparing the Dems to Labour is apples to oranges.

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@Tank_Boi_12 @LyreonArt @krishixhyas @harbingerofwoke The Dems aren't the Labour Party though. The Labour Party was institutionally comprised of workers organisations (through the trade unions). The Dems are a bourgeois party, and the unions don't get special representation at the DNC. I think Lenin would advocate participation in..

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@revdefeatist The loony left is at it again!

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@revdefeatist @AndromedaPip The greatest argument for Brezhnevism is a ten-minute conversation with the average ‘70s Maoist.

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@MathOJames22 My hot take is that the main thing preventing this is the weakness of US parties (the primary system), rather than first-past-the-post