If you're looking for a Lenin, Parenti is your closest but he's dead. Smalls is a good union organizer but has really just organized a single Amazon warehouse and fell off.

De La Cruz got less than half the votes Debs got in his weakest run, when the population of the US was minuscule compared to now. De La Cruz wasn't even on the ballot in her home state. You might as well say Bernie Sanders if you're gonna say De La Cruz because their theories of change are literally the same and are proven failures.

Wolff and Hudson have one foot in the grave as 80 year old men they're not leading anything.

Capital is running up the board as the Globetrotters and you're fielding a team that's playing worse than the Washington Generals.

And my point is that these people don’t matter. They’re not the demographic that’s going to drive any change.

Oh boy, "lets ignore the lumpen proletariat" is literally the most Democratic Party brained take a socialist can make. Weren't you just singing Chairman Fred's praises 5 seconds ago, and now this???

In practice our society is amazing at making lumpenproles, the vast majority of people are lumpenproles by the Marxist definition (not the Engles or Leninist one where he gives them the old Kulak treatment).

And in your opinion the demographic that is going to drive change are unpopular people who are subjects of news discussed on this site and this site only.

This shit is silly dude, there's no clear theory of change here, not even an analysis on a theory of change. Just bromides.

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I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here to be honest. You claimed that the US has no intellectuals and no people who have deep political understanding. I listed a bunch just off top of my head, now you're moving your goal posts.

PSL as a party isn't focused on electoralism. It's a worker movement, and De la Cruz is an excellent leader for this movement. If you still think that elections in a rigged system matter then you are in dire need of reading theory you deride here.

And in your opinion the demographic that is going to drive change are unpopular people who are subjects of news discussed on this site and this site only.

No, and if you actually bothered reading what I wrote then you'd know that the demographic I identified are people feeling the exploitation. People like Chris Smalls who are starting to organize on the ground. The fact that you think bread and circuses is somehow a unique phenomenon in the US that's never happened in history is absolutely incredible.

Good luck with your magical unions organically forming out of thin air bud. I'm sure it'll happen any day now.