The global wave of Gaza solidarity encampments has reinvigorated the Palestine liberation movement and made undeniable ideological advances, but failed to win many material gains. A sober analysis of the student movement’s strengths and weaknesses provides important lessons for the struggle against Zionism, imperialism, and capitalism.
Most on the broad left view electoral activity as all-important to progressive reform and even the advance of socialism. They focus almost exclusively on elections, inevitably to the benefit of parties of the liberal bourgeoisie, like the Democrats. By contrast, revolutionary socialists recognize the electoral system as a weapon in the hands of the ruling class that can never be used to transform the system in any lasting way.
The crisis of Marxism in the U.S. today is a crisis of organization. We need a fighting formation dedicated to wielding the Marxist toolset for understanding and changing the world. Class struggle can and should be advanced by organized Marxist intervention, which demands we compete for influence in social movement and labor activism.
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