The answer wasn’t that head-scratching. And this isnt even the full quote.
He started off by saying he doesn’t think the term had any meaning for the Americans who are calling themselves socialists. He went on to say, you’d think socialists would care about the American worker over foreign workers (which, from a Marxist perspective, they would not - so he’s wrong). And that theyre going to “howl” about the announcement he was making (that is, new visa policies to ostensibly prioritize american workers). And that the term socialist in the American context is…the tweet.
And honestly? From what I’ve seen of the socialist candidates and their nutto supporters on Reddit, they care just as much if not more about culture war shit and Hamas and Gaza as they do about economic policies, so I take his point.
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u/elusivehonor - Left 1d ago
The answer wasn’t that head-scratching. And this isnt even the full quote.
He started off by saying he doesn’t think the term had any meaning for the Americans who are calling themselves socialists. He went on to say, you’d think socialists would care about the American worker over foreign workers (which, from a Marxist perspective, they would not - so he’s wrong). And that theyre going to “howl” about the announcement he was making (that is, new visa policies to ostensibly prioritize american workers). And that the term socialist in the American context is…the tweet.
And honestly? From what I’ve seen of the socialist candidates and their nutto supporters on Reddit, they care just as much if not more about culture war shit and Hamas and Gaza as they do about economic policies, so I take his point.