Re: [Marxism] WSWS: The Nation (magazine) and "socialism"

[Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara@xxxxxxxxx>]

Instead of being characteristically glib, let me engage a bit with this
material:

RE:

"The Nation's response is a pre-emptive effort to convince its readers
that socialist revolution is impossible and the best of all possible
worlds would be the emergence of mass reformist pressure on the Obama
administration and the Democratic Party."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090406/moody

"Socialism, in the Marxist view, is the rule of the working class, whether
its members work along an assembly line or in front of a computer screen,
and not the rule of the party or state. As Marx argued, this class makes
itself "fit to rule" through its struggles and organizations."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/landy

"The left needs to help build grassroots movements and a political party
that will confront the rule of corporations and Wall Street--something the
Democratic Party cannot do no matter how much we push Obama to the left,
given the place of finance and the corporations in the party. We need such
movements, and an independent party that represents them, not only to wrest
concessions and victories today but also so that people can learn how to
truly govern themselves tomorrow."

I could go on.
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