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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

What was important was not whether or not people voted for "progressives" or voted in larger quantities for the DNC. What mattered was growing Communist sympathies and labor organization. The "inputs" that drove the "outputs" were entirely disconnected from the bounds of electoralism, but labor organizing.

That's why I say there's no evidence the DNC can be moved left. The progressive movements were only at the behest of Capital, not the workers, because Capital feared for the usurption of its ruling status.