As far as DSA is concerned, I'm perfectly happy to be associated with it while disagreeing with a large part of the leadership.

It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge.

The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant.

The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of Thomas Ferguson, has shown convincingly that elections are pretty much bought. For example, campaign spending alone is a remarkably good predictor of electoral success, and support of corporate power and private wealth is a virtual prerequisite even for participation in the political arena.

The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways.

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them