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Socialist candidate Claudia De la Cruz moves to counter Democrats' Pennsylvania ballot challenge (www.msn.com)
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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There’s an simple way to counter it — get enough people registered to cover all the positions on the ballot. Or register as an independent and get enough support across the entire state. — but that takes two election cycles of support I believe.

For the socialist party, running for president really isn’t the best serious route forward; better route is to put congressional representatives in races where they have a chance of winning. Then they become actual swing votes that can affect policy.

Once enough representatives have been elected, THEN it’s time to consider a presidential candidate.

[–] LibertyLizard 10 points 2 months ago

It’s because the PSL isn’t a serious socialist party. It’s basically a cult that depends on constant recruitment efforts to stay intact due to its abusive internal politics and constant shedding of members.

A national political campaign is one of the easiest ways to attract lots of new members who don’t know anything about your organization.

It’s very similar to mlm or abusive call center companies where most of the effort goes into recruitment rather than real organizational goals.

[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed.

Karl Marx 1850, Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Karl Marx was an idiot, what else is new?

[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm doubting you've ever read anything from Marx, I'm doubting you read even a portion of that quote and you probably read Marx at the bottom and formed an opinion.

Even 174 years later hes not wrong

[–] c0smokram3r@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What’s with all the MSN links lately? Is it 2001?

Direct link: https://www.tag24.com/politics/politicians/socialist-candidate-claudia-de-la-cruz-moves-to-counter-democrats-pennsylvania-ballot-challenge-3310833

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

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