Our First 100 Days Could Be a Nightmare
Even if Bernie Sanders — or any other democratic socialist — had an electoral majority for our political revolution, we would have to contend with the power of capital. Investment strikes, capital flight, and the power of finance could turn the euphoria of victory into a disaster unless we have a plan to confront them.
Illustration by Oleg Buevskiy
A year from now, we might finally have a democratic socialist president.
Bernie Sanders’s inauguration would be the product of a hard campaign and years of organizing. But even if he had a majority for his program in Congress, and millions ready to organize on shop floors and in the streets to pursue it, capital will be ready to turn our euphoria into a nightmare.
Our enemies stand a very good chance of smashing the entire Sanders agenda to pieces in a matter of months, relegating it to a large catalog of other failed socialist experiments. It doesn’t have to be this way — but we need to take stock of the power that may soon be brought to bear against us.
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