Quote from: RE on Sep 01, 2025, 07:54 PMCost them votes? Maybe they should consider that socialism would GAIN votes. Perhaps people are finally fed up enough with being butt fucked by capitalist mythology they WANT a real choice for socialism out of the Demodope party instead of getting multicultural capitalism?
Multicultural capitalism indeed you've got it right! That is what American socialism has become.
Large cities are full of small political parties, reading groups, and the like. Many of these "third-party" groups have socialist in their name. An example might be the "Podunk Revolutionary Socialists," and you can swap "Podunk" with Anchorage, Seattle, Chicago, or wherever you like. Seattle, for instance, has the "Freedom Socialist Party," which is focused almost exclusively on women's rights. It also has the "Seattle Revolutionary Socialists," whose primary concern is LGBTQ+ issues, especially trans rights, and little else.
The Socialist Alternative and some parts of the DSA have a clearer focus, but they remain confused.
Workers are the cornerstone of any genuine socialist movement. Yet workers are not the focus in American bourgeois socialism, which is now the only kind of socialism most Americans recognize. Real socialism, rooted in class struggle, has been forgotten. The days when Americans knew what socialism actually is are long gone.
American bourgeois socialism is about individual rights and multicultural identity, where anything goes and nothing matters. The myth of the middle class diluted the appeal and understanding of socialism by creating a population invested in the capitalist system. Individual prosperity took precedence over collective class struggle which is now an abandoned notion. American socialists today are mostly petite bourgeois. And the petite bourgeois, in particular the American petite bourgeois, have always been fickle allies of the working class.
They support change when it suits them, but quickly abandon change when faced with personal hardship or the lure of individual gain. Many Americans call themselves socialists, yet they worship billionaires.
It's a shame, because America has a rich history of socialism.