The Democratic Socialists of America pulled its endorsement of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York this week, accusing the progressive congresswoman of being insufficiently supportive of the Palestinian cause and efforts to end the war in Gaza…

Her approach has increasingly strained her relationship with some of the left’s most strident critics of Israel. When she rallied last month in the Bronx with Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Jamaal Bowman, dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators angry over her endorsement of Mr. Biden chanted “You’re a fraud, A.O.C.”

  • Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The communist leader in Germany before Hitler took over said that failure of the nazi government would help convince people to vote for communism in the next election; he was subsequently killed in a concentration camp.

    • OsaErisXero@kbin.run
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      4 months ago

      I mean he was basically right. The social democrats took 30% and the Nazis got 0% in the next election

      In 1949 after Germany’s defeat in WWII.

    • SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It’s good to know that on top of Marxism being a failure from the very start, it also has a long history of paving the way for fascists to get into power. Some things never change.

        • SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          No Marxism is a failure for a lot more than that, it’s one of the most evil failed ideology in human history. It’s just ironic how the people who helped get the Nazis in power are the same people doing the same now. The far left has always been the greatest indirect ally of the of the far right, and they say the horseshoe theory is not real.

          • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            the people who helped get the Nazis in power are the same people doing the same now.

            So, the Marxists, who have no participating party in American elections, with no elected representatives in the federal government, are the real reason fascism is happening in America?

            That’s certainly an opinion.

            • SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world
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              4 months ago

              It’s very clear you’re a brain dead Marxist, and yes, for the record, Marxists are indeed the ones helping sow division among the left as evidenced by this very post… Just like they did in every single election cycle since 2016. Fuck Marxism, fuck Marxists, and fuck the DSA in particular

              • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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                4 months ago

                And that’s supposed to convince Marxists to vote for Joe Biden? How are Marxists the ones sowing division among the left when you’re the one out here calling us names.

                Unless, sowing division is actually your goal. Just thunk about it.

                • SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world
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                  4 months ago

                  Right, my ultimate goal is for the fascists to be defeat and disappear and for the far left to disappear with them. Until then, I have a moral obligation to call out far left extremism when I see it and call out any attempts that try to sabotage Trump’s defeat in November… like what the DSA is trying to do here.

                  • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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                    4 months ago

                    The DSA is doing more more to fight fascism than you or I. To claim that an explicitly anti-fascist organization somehow enables fascism is ridiculous.

                    The Antifascist Working Group (AFWG) notes that much of the work of DSA helps undercut fascism and white supremacy, and is not duplicating that work. There is also a need for the DSA, and beyond, to come together and stop the far right when they try to spread their hate in public and threaten our communities.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      If only they’d joined the SPD in voting for Hindenburg, the guy who won the election and appointed Hitler chancellor, then Hindenburg would’ve… won the election and appointed Hitler chancellor.

    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Just reading about it:

      Critics believed that the KPD’s sectarianism scuttled any possibility of a united front with the SPD against the rising power of the Nazis.

      Not sure if it is analogous to America, since the KPD in Weimar Germany was more prominent politically than the DSA is in America. It was definitely a bad position in hindsight.