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>>15122520
>but Bernie Sanders just lost the nomination to Joe "return to normalcy" Biden
And it's important that the left ensure that the Sanders movement completely divorce themselves from the democratic party (and ideally electoral politics altogether). The problem on the front is making sure fuckups like DSA don't get in the way with their Social Democratic agenda.

>Left-populism has had a decade to take advantage of the unique circumstances following the financial crisis and the most they have to show for it is a barely left-wing Spanish government propping up the austerity wing.
It's frankly taken a decade for something like the Sanders movement to even exist. Its failure has a lot to do with this unyielding optimism for electoralism and the political media machine doing everything in its power to undermine its minimal gains.
The left has a new opportunity with coronavirus and the incoming depression. Burgeoning mutual aid organizations and rent strikes are a good start, but it needs to further expand into proper dual-power networks.

I don't think, for one, that the left is in a good position right now, but there's certainly more opportunity and promise at the moment then there has been in a decade (if not several decades). Primarily, the left needs to seriously attempt to not replicate the Occupy movement, which was so swiftly co-opted by bourgeois neolibs into complete spectacle. OWS is a great example of the empty co-opting of mass mobilization by liberalism in its complete lacking of class politics. The successive faux alleviation by Obama has a lot to do with its dwindling as well, something that likely won't be the case with the Trump or Biden regime.