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Left of Bernie
You say you want a revolution
Keizer, Garret http://harpers.org/archive/2016/02/left-of-bernie/
Publisher: Harper's
Date Written: 01/02/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
A commentary on the state of the far Left in America, and a look back at the formation of the anti-capitalist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) by Bob Avakian in the late 20th century.
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"You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism." Or when people on budgets even tighter than mine are ready to shell out the hardcover price for books such as Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century or Terry Eagleton's Why Marx Was Right, from which the quote above is taken. You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people who could say with Leon Trotsky that by "natural inclination" they are "rather conservative" in their "habits" and "cannot endure disorder or destruction" -- people of my temperament, in other words -- begin to throw around a word like "revolution".
The word was very much in evidence, proclaimed on T-shirts and bumper sticker, when I attended a New Hampshire rally for self-identified socialist Bernie Sanders last summer. Sanders remains steadfast in his belief which his average donation, as reported and loudly cheered at the rally, is $31.20. Which is not to say his call for a "political revolution" is a mere figure of speech. At the New Hampshire rally, he flatly stated that his arrival in the Oval Office would change nothing unless "millions of people stand together and say, 'Enough is enough.'" One could hear this as the prescription for a mass movement.
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