A couple of things stand out in this thread, which mirrors society at large:
1. AOC's intersectionality focus in surgically separated from her socialist ideology, she is denied the latter for various reasons - all of them mimicking a historical tendency to deny or digtate POC women and other minorities their identities - wholly or partially. Those most eager to perform this separation are the self-described pragmatic progressives.
2. Her ideology, socialism, is equated with Bernie and thus rejected by those pushing the issues on the social platform w/o the economic platform, as if the latter is an ideology earmarked and owned by Bernie Sanders representing priviliged white (old) males. One might ask who 'owns' the proposed pragmatic of alternative financialized capitalist orthodoxy building on accumulation of disposession? Do people actually know what ideology MLK and Malcom X espoused?
3. POCs role is to be 'radical' on social issues but are not to step over the line in regards of economic ideology, instead tiptoing conservative 'pragmatic' ideals celebrating a more 'meritocratic' system of accumulation by disposession. This progressive pragmatic ideal sediments the line that radical economic ideas are politically only viable in the hands of old white males like Bernie. We 'let' him do it because he is white and old - but a black socialist, fuck no we ain't ready for that - or something. By this thinking we diminish the horizon of political imagination and again redtape POC's right to their ideological identities.
4. AOC should be an ideal candidate for the democratic party - but instead it backed Crowley, a guy who is the embodyment of crony capitalism and politics. If NYC 14 is such a safe blue space then why keep propping up this guy instead of standing up for someone who is clearly energizing the base and lifts up the three things that should matter for dems, class, race and gender? Because Crowley stands for what is the de facto ideological pillar of the democratic party today, corporate donors.
5. AOCs platform is populism but whatever the current bullshit jargong of centrist meritocratic down-tricklers is not.
What I have not learned from this thread:
1. AOC is not a product of Bernie but she is, in her own words, a product of Brand New Congress - look up their work and the candidates tied to them: http://
brandnewcongress.org/ , they're great but they need your legwork.
2. Democratic socialists actually run great corporate ventures, such as Means of Production, the company behind AOCs media campaign, they works exclusively for the working class. They're great, check them out:
https://means.media/
