It is impossible to defend democratic rights or any of the social interests of working people without seizing the unearned wealth of the billionaire parasites.
But Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez never indict capitalism as a system or call for a struggle against it. And they supported and hailed the Biden administration even as it was presiding over the greatest-ever accumulation of wealth on the part of the financial aristocracy.
For all their fulminations against the oligarchy, they carefully avoid advancing any demand that would deprive the billionaires of their ill-gotten riches. They pretend that society can be changed without a drastic redistribution of wealth, which requires the expropriation of the billionaires.
Tldr: critiquing the system only insofar as to not question capitalism.
US needs to wake up and realise that you’re going to continue to get at its kindest a rampant flock of capitalist lip service until you stop exiling and punishing politicians that run on socialist platforms
That doesn’t necessarily mean that they are plants. It could be that they actually believe social democracy can work or that they think they can’t get support while opposing capitalism explicitly.
The argument is right there in the article.
Tldr: critiquing the system only insofar as to not question capitalism.
US needs to wake up and realise that you’re going to continue to get at its kindest a rampant flock of capitalist lip service until you stop exiling and punishing politicians that run on socialist platforms
You get what you vote for
That doesn’t necessarily mean that they are plants. It could be that they actually believe social democracy can work or that they think they can’t get support while opposing capitalism explicitly.
Would useful idiots be more appropriate then?