Socialists in City Council? Is There a Future?

Just recently Kshama Sawant was re-elected to the Seattle City council and she did it with small donations. Refreshingly she didn’t endorse Bernie Sanders because he’s running on the Democratic Party ticket. But how possible is it to be a city council member and not to be compromised, as Leninists or anarchists might say?
Is there a future for socialists in other city councils? Is that a future we want?

 

About Bruce Lerro

Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his four books: From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World Co-Authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present and Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia WA.

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