As much as I am happy for them. I do think the left would do well in officially creating their own party, or at least link a few local parties together. I don't mean to say this as a way to distract from their victory, but with fascists organizing at a rapid rate and electoralism crumbling before more people, there needs to be a true left alternative to fascism.
There are plenty but I dont think its really possible to really sustain a separate third party in the US under these electoral systems. DSA is about as close to a relevant electoral "third party" as you're gonna get frankly, and class independence and power isn't built cause of a ballot line, its build with organizing.
It would be cool if it happened, but as it exists now the the working class at large doesn't participate in party politics, so all of the projects to create a leftist party run into the same problem of just having a bunch of students out in front and a scattering of other people who primarily join because they radicalized themselves online.
As much as I am happy for them. I do think the left would do well in officially creating their own party, or at least link a few local parties together. I don't mean to say this as a way to distract from their victory, but with fascists organizing at a rapid rate and electoralism crumbling before more people, there needs to be a true left alternative to fascism.
There are plenty but I dont think its really possible to really sustain a separate third party in the US under these electoral systems. DSA is about as close to a relevant electoral "third party" as you're gonna get frankly, and class independence and power isn't built cause of a ballot line, its build with organizing.
It would be cool if it happened, but as it exists now the the working class at large doesn't participate in party politics, so all of the projects to create a leftist party run into the same problem of just having a bunch of students out in front and a scattering of other people who primarily join because they radicalized themselves online.