Several safe Democratic seats in California have become ground zero for the brewing intergenerational battle within the party as younger challengers take on aging incumbents.
Authoritarian socialism doesn’t have an exclusive claim to leftism (contrary to tankie claims).
Leftism & socialism can & probably should be nonauthoritarian & even liberal: power imbalance is a serious inequality.
Also just gonna piggy back by pointing out that even just socialism predates the ideological branch that China and the Norks derive from. Just off the top of my head you have communalism (Anabaptist and the Shakers being decent examples), utopianism, leftist libertarians, and whatever the fuck the early rednecks were doing (the Scottish strikers not their Appalachian descendants).
Perhaps with a wave of young challengers we can finally get what the US deserves, a true left.
A resurgence of the US socialist/leftist movements (not unlike in the early-mid 20th century) would do this country a desperately needed good.
Like they have in China and North Korea?
Authoritarian socialism doesn’t have an exclusive claim to leftism (contrary to tankie claims). Leftism & socialism can & probably should be nonauthoritarian & even liberal: power imbalance is a serious inequality.
Also just gonna piggy back by pointing out that even just socialism predates the ideological branch that China and the Norks derive from. Just off the top of my head you have communalism (Anabaptist and the Shakers being decent examples), utopianism, leftist libertarians, and whatever the fuck the early rednecks were doing (the Scottish strikers not their Appalachian descendants).
Also that association is great propaganda for conservatives.