The upcoming US presidential election is once again provoking arguments from liberals about the “lesser evil” amid widespread concern about the reactionary right. Revolutionary socialists never support capitalist parties or their candidates — our class enemies — and we reject lesser-evilism as a justification for doing so, even when the “lesser” evil isn’t complicit in genocide. Here, we outline the history of this fundamental Marxist principle.
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Out of the Voting Booth, Into the Streets: Revolutionaries and Electoral Politics
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.
Miseries of the Middle Class: A Review of David Roediger’s The Sinking Middle Class
Most people see the United States as a middle-class society. This idea has dominated sociology and even influenced left-wing organizing. Is this view accurate? How does it square with Marx’s idea that the working class is the vast majority in capitalist society? Ahmed Kanna examines an important contribution to this debate on analysis and strategy.
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