Re: The Founders Never Meant the US To Be a Democracy

Henwood concludes: "I’ve spent most of this piece on all the structural obstacles to popular power that are engineered into the American political system. But it is far from completely undemocratic. Let us use its democratic residues to make their crisis our opportunity."

This is the fog of DSA's democratic socialism. Opportunity for what? Opportunity to build pushback against cutbacks and attacks? Sure, and that is standard progressivism. But Henwood barely labels U.S. democracy as the democracy of capitalists, so he never has to talk about democracy and dictatorship by the working class. DSA is torn between evasion of the whole issue versus gobbledygook about a new constitution...without revolution.


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