Donald
Trump’s economic advisers released a bizarre report attacking
socialism yesterday. Socialists can only take one lesson from it:
we’re winning.
by
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Part
6 - Naming the Class Enemy
One
point that the report largely gets right is the fact that, throughout
history, socialists have been effective at directly identifying their
political opponents: “The socialist narrative names the
oppressors of the vulnerable, such as the bourgeoisie (Marx), kulaks
(Lenin), landlords (Mao), and giant corporations (Sanders and
Warren).”
While
Warren, who has clearly stated “I am a capitalist,” may disagree
with being named in such a list, she and Sanders have been effective
at contesting the obscene role of corporate power in influencing our
political system.
What has
set Sanders apart, as Bhaskar Sunkara points out in the Guardian, is
his insistence that a movement challenging the “billionaire class”
and building working-class power is the only force that can truly
transform the American political system, turning it away from
oligarchy and toward democracy.
And
Sanders has set out to help bring about such a transformation under
the label of democratic socialism.
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