The history of leftist efforts to realign the Democratic Party demonstrates that strategies like the “dirty break” and the “party surrogate” are not ways forward for the left, but traps instead. Beyond sabotaging left Democrats like Zohran Mamdani and their proposed reforms, a greater danger is the party’s ability to absorb them. Instead, we need an independent socialist workers’ movement.
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City has caused excitement on the left due to his democratic-socialist politics and his support for Palestine. Such excitement has historically led to disorientation and disillusionment when reformist Democrats — such as AOC and Brandon Johnson — inevitably betray the left. Revolutionaries must retain our opposition to all Democrats and executives of the capitalist state.
After exploding in the Latinx community of Los Angeles, the anti-ICE movement has spread nationwide and become the most militant and determined opposition to Trump. Marxists must resolutely support immigrant workers in their struggle against ICE, while pointing to the Democrats’ complicity in the US’s racist border policies — and maintaining our opposition to the very existence of borders and nations.
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