What, if any, theory can help organizers select for quality members?

Also, not sure I agree that this is just “Carville-pill.” But it’s funny you’d say it as a kind of failure when he pulled off a dark horse win for Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party.

Saying that "everyone knows wokeness is a problem" as Carville did does not actually replace "wokeness" (however we choose to define this) as an ideology. There really isn't much point in getting into power just to be Joe Manchin either; not that I'm saying that even Clinton is Joe Manchin, given how conservative the average voter's views were in the 90s it could've been much worse.

Sure, you have to be able to deal with voters, lets take an extreme position that certain communist parties and intellectuals have taken in the past –– some have said that the aoc should be 13 years old or even be abolished. That's obviously not popular and even if you really did believe in it its "a game thats not worth the candle" as the saying goes. I think thats a scenario where you can say "alright lets not do this dumb thing thats going to alienate voters" -- even if 90% of people agree with us on all other issues, the fact that 80-90% of the population would probably be hard against this is a reason not to take it up.

On other issues, it doesn't matter that the average American voter might not approve of social democracy, much less communism, the end-goal of communism is the point of having a communist party. People have correctly pointed out that the platform of the manifesto was not communism, it was a transitionary program for a hypothetical German republic intended to move the needle closer to a communist future. So there you can say Marx was doing the pragmatic thing.

You need ideology, not just good aesthetics, or optics. You can't just appeal to common sense and peoples prejudices, sure you should be willing to when it suits you, but you also need to change it.

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