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Only a “Transformational” Electoral Politics is Useful
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
05 Jan 2021
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Margaret Kimberley · Only a “Transformational” Electoral Politics is Useful

Ajamu Baraka, national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace and 2016 Green Party vice presidential candidate, said electoral politics should be treated as a “strategic question” for the Black liberation movement, depending on its usefulness in putting forward “transitional demands.” The larger mission is to build “independent political formations” that “ultimately will arrive at a socialist transformation.” Baraka said organizers should avoid “bourgeois” electoral politics that fails to confront capitalism and “colonial” rule.

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