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In his rant he never mentions anything outside of whoever is congress or local elections or tucker carlson or whatever goes on in a presidential race. And his big idea is to hope that China wins out?
The only thing he says that's outside the mainstream conception of politics is "it's coming from below" and never expands on it. Never imagines how that can be steered or influenced. To Matt it's a fait accompli.
The Bolsheviks were only 10'000 people. You don't need the majority of people to affect change. The pre conditions are there for an American working class movement. You just have to clearly from the beginning say that all that ballot shit is not what you'll do. You'll do workplace shit, strike shit, community shit. Not AOC not this primary this not candidate that. The Imperial core left has to completely break from all the contemporary "democratic" interfaces of the state.
To be fair it feels like he was saying due to the nature of politics having evolved to a state of almost complete ubiquity in voters not associating political actions with being able to influence material conditions or a shared idea of a national project, that regardless of the whether the conditions are there, the machinations needed to “activate” change is not something we have the ability to control anymore? At least that’s what I think he was saying. I think the “it’s coming from below” thing feels a little anarchist, that conditions will just have to drive the change naturally from the bottom up as people en masse actually become more desperate and that our conception of party building is now, or like since the 70s, irrelevant. Idk if I agree with that, or if I even have his thoughts totally straight here. But anyway
In his rant he never mentions anything outside of whoever is congress or local elections or tucker carlson or whatever goes on in a presidential race. And his big idea is to hope that China wins out?
The only thing he says that's outside the mainstream conception of politics is "it's coming from below" and never expands on it. Never imagines how that can be steered or influenced. To Matt it's a fait accompli.
The Bolsheviks were only 10'000 people. You don't need the majority of people to affect change. The pre conditions are there for an American working class movement. You just have to clearly from the beginning say that all that ballot shit is not what you'll do. You'll do workplace shit, strike shit, community shit. Not AOC not this primary this not candidate that. The Imperial core left has to completely break from all the contemporary "democratic" interfaces of the state.
To be fair it feels like he was saying due to the nature of politics having evolved to a state of almost complete ubiquity in voters not associating political actions with being able to influence material conditions or a shared idea of a national project, that regardless of the whether the conditions are there, the machinations needed to “activate” change is not something we have the ability to control anymore? At least that’s what I think he was saying. I think the “it’s coming from below” thing feels a little anarchist, that conditions will just have to drive the change naturally from the bottom up as people en masse actually become more desperate and that our conception of party building is now, or like since the 70s, irrelevant. Idk if I agree with that, or if I even have his thoughts totally straight here. But anyway