Democratic socialists are a benefit to socialism generally if they are arguing from a standpoint of material empowering working people, which this guy is. Either they succeed in making their reforms, and people are empowered, or they fail and radicalize people, as we saw happen with Bernie – who was critical in the political awakenings of a whole generation of people who now rightly view him as too conservative.

Communists seriously should run for elected office, on campaigns of making radical changes that are allowed by existing legal frameworks – and the US Constitution especially formally allows for really any change. They cannot “fix” America, but they can benefit us nonetheless. Read Marx, he says the same thing.

i went and had a further look at the book:

“Nearly two hundred fifty years ago, the men who founded America made a fundamental break not just from their old country but from the past—casting off an order that had subjugated them with worn and weak ideas for the promise of true self-governance and greater prosperity in a new republic,” Nwanevu writes. “With exactly their sense of purpose and even higher, more righteous ambitions for America than they themselves had, we should do the same now⁠—work as hard as we can in the decades ahead to ‘institute new Government’ for the benefit of all and not just the few.”

lmao praising the slaveowning founding fathers and their “righteous ambitions for america” is not it