“How we’re going to do it is through a mass mobilization of working class people at the ballot box. It’s the only way that we’re going to win, defeat the system of which Trump is a symptom. We need to organize a fundamentally positive and welcoming movement, one that is mindful of the ugly histories that led to our present reality, the inequalities, racism, sexism, the imperialist and colonialist histories that contribute to endless wars and the immigration crisis. We need to recognize the principles that will drive us forward. The logic that got us into this mess is not going to get us out of it. We need to build a mass movement centered on working class, poor, middle class people, that is actively anti-racist, rooted in principles of universality, everyone has a right to health care and education, on principles of cooperation, that is participatory. We need to actively center those principles, combat misogyny, anti-queer discrimination. To drive us forward we need a U.S. that is operated and owned and decided by working and all people, our future is in publicly-owned systems. I don’t want Mark Zuckerberg making decisions over my life. We need to be multi-racial, multi-gendered, multi-generational and multi-geographic. We need to come together listening to each other, to our differences, prioritizing understanding them.”
—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, October 18, 2019, Queens, New York rally announcing her endorsement of Bernie Sanders
A “welcoming movement.” I like that. And I like the rest of what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes (AOC) said at the huge, 25,000-person rally in Queens as she explained why she had decided to publicly endorse Bernie Sanders for President.
It is so important that young leaders like AOC are providing leadership not just on the big issues like climate, health care, economic inequality, mass incarceration, immigrant rights and more, but are also being very explicit about the necessity of a qualitatively superior movement, a principled mass movement, as compared to what the Left has too often produced in the past.
"Ijobiy." "Xush kelibsiz." "Ishtirokchi." "Tinglash." "Universal." "Farqlarni tushunish." Vetnam urushigacha bo'lgan tajribamga ko'ra, so'llarning ushbu tamoyillar bo'yicha rekordlari mutlaqo aralashgan.
One of my favorite quotes is from Rosa Luxemburg, a leader of the European socialist movement in the late 1800s and first 2 decades of the 20th century. It is undoubtedly a statement made as a result of many difficult personal experiences with socialist men who had difficulty matching their noble socialist sentiments with the way they lived their lives. Luxemburg wrote: “Unrelenting revolutionary activity, coupled with a boundless humanity—that alone is the real life-giving force of socialism. A world must be overturned, but every tear that has flowed and might have been wiped away is an indictment, and a man hurrying to perform a great deed who steps on even a worm out of unfeeling carelessness commits a crime.”
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Berni AOC uni tanishtirgandan so'ng gapirganida, u bir vaqtning o'zida biz ijtimoiy o'zgarishlarni amalga oshirayotganimizda qanday bo'lishimiz kerakligini tasvirlash uchun "sevgi" so'zini ishlatgan. U barchamiz nafaqat o'zimiz uchun, balki azob chekayotgan boshqalar uchun ham o'zgarishga intilishimiz kerakligi haqida ta'sirchan gapirdi. Go‘yo u nosiralik Isoning “yaqinimizni o‘zimizni sevgandek sevishimiz” haqidagi so‘zlarini boshqa tilda ifodalashga urinayotgandek edi.
Bugungi kunda umid qilish uchun juda ko'p sabablar bor: Trump katta siyosiy muammoga duch keldi, Berni va Elizabet Demokratik nomzod bo'lish uchun ovoz berishning eng yuqori qismida, bizning harakatlarimiz muammolarda faol bo'lib, barchaga qarshi bo'lsa-da ba'zi g'alabalarni qo'lga kiritmoqda. Biz. AOC biz qurishimiz kerak bo'lgan sifat jihatidan farq qiladigan ommaviy harakatni o'z ichiga olganini va aniq gapirayotganini bilish va Berni bularning ba'zilarini ko'rib chiqayotgani juda umidvor.
Men g'alaba qozonishimizga ishonaman. Z
Ted Glick has been a progressive activist and organizer since 1968. Past writings and other information can be found at https://tedglick.com, and he can be followed on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jtglick.