Public Safety or Self-Defense? | Negation Magazine

In the present balance of forces in the class struggle we find a split social movement, perhaps best symbolized by this present excitement over, yet again, a Democratic Party nominee promising reforms from a municipal executive office, and how it stands in tactical opposition to the uprising against the deportation regime’s military occupation of Los Angeles by the proletarians of that region. The geographical distance of these two political moments mirrors the practical separation of these strategies, and the lack of any organized coordination between partisans on these fronts. Such a distance provokes us to evaluate this situation and identify where indeed the real movement of communism resides, and to further develop the critique of bourgeois democracy and the state in these institutions’ relation to the emergent revolutionary proletariat.
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