<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"> <a class="enhancr2_442f325e-2e50-1b92-fee3-ed1df6f7692a" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2766" href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/democratic-party-realignment-civil-rights-mcgovern-meany-rustin-sanders/">It’s Their Party</a><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="yahoo-link-enhancr-card yahoo-link-enhancr-not-allow-cover ymail-preserve-class ymail-preserve-style" id="enhancr2_442f325e-2e50-1b92-fee3-ed1df6f7692a" style='font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; max-width: 400px;' dir="ltr" contenteditable="false" data-category="article" data-size="medium" data-type="yenhancr" data-embed-url="" data-url="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/democratic-party-realignment-civil-rights-mcgovern-meany-rustin-sanders/"> <a class="yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2781" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; text-decoration: none !important;" href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/democratic-party-realignment-civil-rights-mcgovern-meany-rustin-sanders/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"> <table class="card-wrapper" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2780" style="max-width: 400px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2779"><tr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2778"> <td width="400" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2777"> <table width="100%" class="card-info" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2776" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-width: 1px 1px 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(224, 228, 233) rgb(224, 228, 233) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: none; max-width: 400px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2775"><tr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2774"> <td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2773" style="padding: 16px 0px 16px 12px; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="padding: 16px 12px; width: 99%; vertical-align: middle;"> <h2 class="card-title" style='margin: 0px 0px 4px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'>It’s Their Party</h2> <div class="card-description" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 15px; font-size: 11px;">A generation ago, socialists and civil rights activists tried to transform the Democratic Party. Why did they fail?</div> </td> <td class="card-share-container"></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2816"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2815"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2795">"The contemporary left should aspire to do what the realignment strategy tried to accomplish — to recognize the different interests that exist within capital, and leverage them to our own ends. To be successful in this endeavor, however, and to avoid the sorry end of postwar realignment, it will have to organize on the basis of two truths that Harrington and his co-thinkers ultimately forgot.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2831"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469712496783_2796" dir="ltr">First, working-class insurgency is the only force that renders the contradictions between capitals dynamic and capable of serving the Left. Second, whatever power labor manages to assert against capital, whether on the shop floor, in a capitalist party like the Democrats, or even in an actual social-democratic party, will always be partial, and subject to dismemberment as soon as capital is able. While Harrington’s intellectual work stresses this, the project he helped built did not reflect it."</div></div></body></html>