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Approximately 98% of all tweets sniping at left Labour members for wanting to leave the party now Corbyn has gone, AND all tweets threatening Bernie supporters with Trump if they don& #39;t vote Biden, miss the point of such principled withdrawal. <Thread.>
There is a very clear logic, which goes back to a fundamental 19th century distinction between revolutionary and reformist strands of socialism, behind both approaches. Both have their place, and I am not attempting to evaluate them in this thread - that would take forever.
All I want to do here is to offer the case for a principled withdrawal of left-voices from the main & #39;left& #39; party under certain circumstances, because, as I mentioned at the beginning, such a case is so rarely made explicit.
Instead, what we tend to get is emotional blackmail from the centrist side & #39;If you don& #39;t support Starmer/Biden you will get Johnson/Trump forever& #39;, and bitter hyperbole from the left side & #39;Biden/Starmer are evil/useless/traitors& #39;, etc. Far more heat than light.
So why would someone on the left of US politics EVER vote Trump over Hillary Clinton, or Joe Biden? And given that is a rare circumstance, why would they even risk Trump winning by not actively supporting+voting for the Democratic candidate, even if it is not the one they wanted?
