What We do in the Election Booth is Not the Same as Activism

What are we voting for when we participate in elections? This question seems particularly pertinent these days for Left political activists in light of the recent victories of self-proclaimed democratic socialists, most notably the successful mayoral campaigns of Zohran Mamdani and Katie Wilson. Socialism is not something that can be voted in. The attempt of […]

Pete Dolack has been an activist with several groups, most recently Trade Justice New York Metro. He writes the Systemic Disorder blog and is the author of the books What Do We Need Bosses For?: Toward Economic Democracy and It’s Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment.

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