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LINK Cornel West: “Bernie Was Crushed by Neoliberalism”

"You see the rot at the core of the system’s embracing of the neofascist wing of the ruling class, which is Donald Trump and company. And the neoliberal wing of the ruling class, which is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The reason some of us argue against Trump, in the form of a vote for a milquetoast, mediocre, centrist Biden — who’s head of a rotten Democratic establishment — is because we’re trying to stop the American march toward fascism. So that was part of the anti-fascist coalition.

Fascism, as you know, calls into question the very possibility of any kind of radical Democratic politics, across the board. But there is still a difference between a neofascist catastrophe and a neoliberal disaster. Now, it looks as if we’ll be wrestling with a neoliberal disaster. That’s another way of saying that the rot is there, it’s just that with Biden, the rot proceeds much more slowly."

WilliamCharles 8 Mar 21
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Where will your “go it alone” progressivism find allies?

Maybe from others not happy with the party being continually dragged to the right by corporate Dems.

They regularly argue moderate conservatives will go for GOP-Lite, but they always throw in with GOP Classic, or GQP Extreme.

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Quite right. I've been saying here and in my personal discussions that the political history of the US over the past few years has been the rise of populism on the Left, Bernie et.al., which the US very much needs, and populism on the Right, US fascism, which, if successful will make the US a failed state. The US ruling class managed to crush Left populism, with a lot of help from its support structures, like the media, but has not been able crush Right populism. Trumpism escaped them, and they just managed to install their political pretorian guard, Biden and co, to take control of the ship - temporarily. But they don't control Trumpist fascism, and indeed, much of the ruling class support it. Their determination to destroy progressive change in the US is paramount, even if they have to destroy America to do it. Prof West, as always, says what few if any will do in the US mainstream: talk about class and power.

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