Promise overwhelmingly popular left policy, start implementing it in the states you control, use every tool at your disposal to block republican policy. If the courts have to kill your legislation or governor's orders, make them do it, and if possible, do it in ways that can't be undone, such as forgiveness of debts.
eg, if you have the legislature and there is a republican governor, strip all powers from the governorship until you have it again. If you're in the minority party, block everything that you wouldn't do if you had total control while telling the public it is exactly what you will do when you get power. Stop pretending the courts are apolitical, appoint judges that will help you accomplish your agenda and will block the republicans.
Build power at the local level by responding to your constituents needs. Even if you didn't win the elections, democrats need to work with unions and local organizations, not expect loyalty while ignoring them and providing no resources.
Under no circumstances do you agree to republican framing and suggest you need to build the wall, engage in trade wars with China, fund the police to stop a crime wave, try to be the "patriotic" party etc. You cannot outflank the republicans from the right.
When Trump's ICE blackbags a student, we don't need Chuck Schumer out there agreeing with Trump that he is a horrible person for supporting Palestine but disagreeing with Trump's methods.
Putin is 8 inches shorter and 20 years older than Musk.
Then again Putin would have the very best doping program in the world, Musk would probably take a bunch of unproven experimental hormones and ketamine, not work out, and get an ever weirder looking body.
Marx made statements about the proletariat without experiencing it or doing field studies
Every economist has made statements about the proletariat, how could you write any economic work without including the working class?
But also Marx was around during 1848 and went to Paris in the wake of the Paris Commune, he wasn't Che or Stalin, but he certainly wasn't sitting in an ivory tower writing theories without any input from the reality on the ground.
Marx thought that the most oppressed are the ones most likely to begin a revolution which is wrong
No, Marx thought the industrial working class were the ones most likely to begin a revolution, as opposed to the farmers who (in france, britain, and germany) were much more atomized due to their means of production, which was accurate to France and Germany, though South America, Russia, China, and Korea all proved that the peasant class had revolutionary potential.
Marxist framework
Marx's framework was examining society from a materialist lens, specifically related to the means of production to understand things, as opposed to idealism; a Marxist historian analyzing the french revolution focuses on the contradiction between the bourgeoisie's economic power and the aristocracy's power within the government. A non-marxist focuses on the personalities of individuals involved and the ideas they professed rather than structures. To paraphrase Engels mocking Great Man Theory, it's a shame Steve Jobs wasn't born in ancient Egypt, then we could have had iPhones 4,000 years ago.
When something is labeled marxist feminism, it's not adding feminism to marxism, it's applying a marxist analysis to feminism.
They immolate people per vehicle sold than the ford pinto. The have absurd numbers of points of failure; until a few years ago each door handle had over a dozen sensors and wires, all exposed to moisture and thermal cycling, and cost $500 each. They use a few hall effect sensors now, but still cost >$500.
Promise overwhelmingly popular left policy, start implementing it in the states you control, use every tool at your disposal to block republican policy. If the courts have to kill your legislation or governor's orders, make them do it, and if possible, do it in ways that can't be undone, such as forgiveness of debts.
eg, if you have the legislature and there is a republican governor, strip all powers from the governorship until you have it again. If you're in the minority party, block everything that you wouldn't do if you had total control while telling the public it is exactly what you will do when you get power. Stop pretending the courts are apolitical, appoint judges that will help you accomplish your agenda and will block the republicans.
Build power at the local level by responding to your constituents needs. Even if you didn't win the elections, democrats need to work with unions and local organizations, not expect loyalty while ignoring them and providing no resources.
Under no circumstances do you agree to republican framing and suggest you need to build the wall, engage in trade wars with China, fund the police to stop a crime wave, try to be the "patriotic" party etc. You cannot outflank the republicans from the right.
When Trump's ICE blackbags a student, we don't need Chuck Schumer out there agreeing with Trump that he is a horrible person for supporting Palestine but disagreeing with Trump's methods.