Anti-Intellectualism and the American Left

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Whatever a majority produced would be a step toward some vague notion of socialism.
55% : Capitalism destroys; the goal of socialism is to build from the ashes of what bourgeois society had burned.
51% : Yet it is also criticized for Bernstein's line the "ultimate aim of socialism is nothing, but the movement is everything."
50% : For Bernstein, the practical politics of socialism was building a movement, getting social democrats elected, and then voting socialism into office.
49% : Eduard Bernstein's Evolutionary Socialism is often considered the intellectual origins of democratic socialism.
46% : Similarly, Michael Harrington, one of the founders of Democratic Socialists of America, fashioned a theory of politics and a vision for political movement in books such as The Twilight of Capitalism and The Next Left.
41% : They crafted political economic critiques of capitalism, defining a plan for action that included criticism, strategy, and goals.
41% : Capitalism politicized everything.
33% : Walter Benjamin's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction brilliantly criticized capitalism for stripping away the aura of art and replacing it with politics.

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