Former New York State Senator Daniel Squadron needs you to know you have more power than you think you do. “You could be the most important force in hanging scary political currents,” he writes in his new book, The Fourth Branch: How State Government Can Save Our Union. Conveyed through scenes from his eight-year tenure as a member of the New York State Assembly, Squadron’s argument for the latent power of state governments is a timely restatement of an activist truism: all politics are actually local. “When schools fail, bridges crumble, water’s poisoned, and equality is denied, it’s the states that have acted or failed to act,” he writes.
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Pretending “Socialism” has some shared and final collective aim is a falsehood.
One of the main divisions is between Social Democrats (the kind America has been voting in) who just want more socialist policies in place… And Democratic Socialists, some of whom wish a slow transition to a Socialist system.
…but even Socialist systems today aren’t the state authoritarian Soviet Communism of yesteryear. Look at Vietnam - it’s a Socialist country but they do a hell of a lot of buying and selling.
This is the idea of Market Socialism. That Socialism isn’t the end of markets where goods are bought and sold. Socialism is the end of monopolistic private wealth, and dangerous billionaire Capitalists liquidating the economy as they see fit.