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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
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You're absolutely right. Liberals only start to join us out of despair, and they are self deluding enough that by that point it is usually too late. I'd say a repeated sequence of moderate failures would work, but they don't have long term memory. This is obviously the standard critique of Popular Front politics, but a Popular Front is currently the farthest left of the compass of US political thought.
The essential issue for the US revolutionary left is that they'll never be a majority, yet capitulation gains them nothing. Thus, their goal should be how to force the hand of fate and establish a dictatorship of the revolutionary proletariat, not the whole working classes. I know this might seem like rampant Blanquism, but it's not too far off from Lenin's issue, except instead of "What if most of the working classes are despondent peasants?" it's "What if most of the workers are complacent labour aristocracy?"