Posted on 02/27/2017 1:59:01 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A few weeks ago, tenants’ rights activist Jon Grant announced that he’s running for City Council this fall as a Democratic Socialist. Although he is not, technically speaking, a member of any political party - the affiliation is more a kind of “shorthand to describe my values to voters,” he says - his second-time run for a Council seat is couched in the belief that, in Seattle, anyway, “it’s not enough anymore to be an establishment Democrat.”
The events of the past year, and especially of the past few months, seem to echo that sentiment. November 8, 2016, was an enormous day for socialists everywhere, as those who’d long opposed the then President-elect rushed to take a stand.
Socialism, then - at least in Seattle - is neither a bad word these days, nor an outdated one. “For me, watching Bernie Sanders run for President,” says Grant, “was to demonstrate that the values of democratic socialism actually have broad appeal.”
Seattle’s socialist legion is fairly consistent; delineating clear differences can be difficult, and all groups concede there’s a good deal of mutual respect and ideological overlap. Still, they differ a bit in strategy and focus.
In the main, people are looking for ways to plug into progressive causes right now, Grant says — and “it’s not enough just to theoretically, philosophically support these things” after November 8. If an uptick in Seattle’s socialist membership is any indication, it’s that people realize there is work to do. “That’s the shift we’re seeing.”
(Excerpt) Read more at seattleweekly.com ...
Let’s see there’s: Stalinist, Trotsky-ite, Maoist, Titoist.......
The day they rise-up and seize Microsoft for the Proletariat I am just going to laugh.....and laugh......and laugh!!
Idiot Sawant something or other (city council member) wanted to take over Boeing to build buses. I guess it was for those folks who don’t have cars in order to get to a job that was lost because Boeing was making buses.
These late drinkers have no idea what socialism is or the consequences of it. What socialist country has late drinking kids like that? They really do not know what they are getting into.
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