Honestly, if SocDems started criticising China from a leftcom perspective, it’d be an improvement.
They have little to lose by doing so anyways! Like, they don't even have to go full leftcom perspective. They don't have to say shit like "China no longer abides by the principles a Marxist-Leninist state would abide by and has abdicated its responsibility to the proletariat and only uses leftist aesthetics to convince them that it still has an interest in maintaining the dictatorship of the working class," they can just dogwhistle it and it would still work
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of AOC's redemption
AOC is living proof that I simply do not understand politics at a fundamental level.
She's like a puzzle piece that doesn't fit anywhere on the board.
I'm not sure how she got to Congress, much less got such a high profile, in such a short order. I can't tell what her game plan is, why people are willing to work with her or try and stab her in the back, what kind of leverage she's exerting, if she's effective, if she's just being manipulated, or if she's got a serious long term future. Is she a fluke? Is she the kind of candidate you can model after? What does she say about the modern political landscape?
I just know she's got a solid base of support and a wide audience. But, after that? She's a complete mystery to me.
she's a fluke in that the most efficient establishment machines are located in the states with the supposed most progressive bases and she somehow pantsed the Democratic Party giving a high profile area actual representation for once
Uh, well, shit. I simply do not understand politics at a fundamental level.
My instinct is that she's a manifestation of the general desire for systemic reform, and also a bit of a fluke. No system is perfect, and championing the disaffected should be a reasonably viable strategy when there are lots of disaffected around. Most of the rest is probably related to everyone else trying to figure out what's going on, too.
Maybe that it's more complicated than "electoral politics bad". You should never rely on voting to get anything changed. Voting is just affirmation that either your activism is working or you haven't done enough. It's not useless either. It's a parallel power structure necessary to keep progressive changes in the long term.
