Defeated Marxist Kshama Sawant Calls for ‘Militant’ Movement to ‘Overthrow’ Capitalist System

Kshama Sawant Blew It

Kshama Sawant, former Seattle city councilor and candidate for Washington’s 9th Congressional Seat.Earlier this year, I defended the Democratic Socialists of America’s electoral strategy in Left Voice, an ultra-left publication that argues socialists must reject all cooperation with bourgeois parties such as the Democrats. I defended DSA’s strategy of competing on the Democratic Party ballot line by showing how it led to DSA’s rapid rise and mad…

Defeated Marxist Kshama Sawant Calls for ‘Militant’ Movement to ‘Overthrow’ Capitalist System

Defeated former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant used her concession statement to boast that she had run an “openly Marxist” campaign for Congress and call for a “militant” movement aimed at overthrowing capitalism. Sawant failed to advance out of Washington’s 9th Congressional District primary, but framed the loss as evidence that a revolutionary Marxist campaign could still build support outside the Democratic Party. https:///cmkshama/…