Chicago Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is thrilled that four Socialists, bona fide members of the Democratic Socialists of America [a variation of communism] won their primaries.
Ramirez, a close ally of Bernie Sanders, tweeted: “@DemSocialists are running for office & winning. Congratulations to the 4 DSA endorsed candidates (2 DSA members) that won PA legislative primaries this week! Let’s replicate these wins across the US for a government that works for the many, not the few.”
The Alderman linked to a New Yorker article describing their successful campaign as a “landslide” in the union-oriented neighborhoods of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania.
Summer Lee, Sara Innamorato, and Elizabeth Fiedler, all candidates for the State House, are endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, the hard-left organization founded in 1982 and revitalized by Bernie Sanders, the New Yorker reports.
They are more than endorsed, they are hardline Socialists.
The article points to a Pennsylvania professor and political analyst who says conventional wisdom says you run from the center.
He says: “That’s the struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party: Should it go left, to its F.D.R. roots, or to the center, which is more advantageous? It’s playing out on a national level, but here on a local level, too.”
A fourth DSA member not mentioned in the New Yorker article, Kristin Seale won in Philadelphia. Seale will run against Rep. Christopher Quinn. Fiedler, also in Philly, has no opponent.
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Lee and Immorato, who defeated state reps. in Pittsburgh, don’t have Republicans running against them.
DSA is hailing the victories as a shift in the party. “We’re turning the state the right shade of red tonight,” said the Communist president of the Pittsburgh DSA chapter.
Kristin Seale’s retweet:
✔ You can demand free healthcare for all, and win.
✔ You can support free, universal education, and win.
✔ You can address the issues with our justice and carceral system, and win.
✔ You can be vocally pro-choice and defend reproductive rights, and win.
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— Pittsburgh DSA🌹🍞 (@pghDSA) May 17, 2018
Here is another one of her retweets:
Only direct action and revolution can bring the capitalist system to its knees.
— Comrade Death (@x3n0nlights) May 16, 2018
These people are revolutionaries and if this continues, America is heading for disaster.
The DSA has a more radical Marxist platform than the Communist Party USA. They want to abolish prisons and police. They hope to abolish Capitalism and add all the Sanders freebies to our over-burdened economy. Venezuela, here we come!
We will all be California and we will all go down together.
They won’t go away.
#DSA #Pennsylvania #PADems #PAPrimary #WakeUpDNC #WeWontGoAway #ThursdayThoughts
‘Four Pennsylvania state House candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America won their Democratic primaries Tuesday:… https://t.co/QurEE48u7u— WomenForJustice (@Women4JusticeUS) May 16, 2018
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