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No, Kamala Harris Isn’t a Marxist (jacobin.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@return2ozma Marxism, a term used by Republicans when Socialist just isn't scary enough any more

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yes, they've been calling her a Marxist/radical leftist/Communist/etc lately.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Harris's party is predominantly center-right. They believe in capitalism, private land ownership, individual rights, a limited role for government in regulating the economy, and the rest of the liberal-democratic consensus.

The leftmost faction within her party, the DSA, are social-democrats, a center-left position.

There are no revolutionary socialists among US federal elected officials. The notion that the Democratic Party is "leftist" is a fantasy of the far right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It would be really cool if she was though 😢