[D66] [JD: 115] What Is the Meaning of Revolution Today? – Spectre Journal

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        What Is the Meaning of Revolution Today? – Spectre Journal

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Louis Proyect
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By David McNally

The decline of the idea of socialist revolution thus goes hand in hand
with a relative collapse of insurgent, leftward-moving popular insurgencies.

This is the context for the rise of a new and bolder social democratic
reformism, particularly in the U.S. Stimulated in part by the episodic
successes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns of 2016 and 2020,
a layer of intellectuals and activists in and around the Democratic
Socialists of America (DSA) has embraced the parliamentarist legacy of
German social democratic theorist Karl Kautsky.^4
<https://spectrejournal.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-revolution-today/void(0)>
 Today, the new Kautskyism reinforces a fixation on the electoral arena
that threatens to disable sections of the socialist left. The embrace of
electoralism underpins left practices that de-emphasize mobilization in
defense of Black lives, evade or oppose calls to defund the police, and
fail to lift a finger on behalf of union organizing drives at Amazon.^5
<https://spectrejournal.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-revolution-today/void(0)>
 There is a political logic to this since, as Kautsky himself half
conceded, his was a “passive radicalism” mistrustful of socialist
efforts to /build/ working class insurgency.

https://spectrejournal.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-revolution-today/


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