The Paradox of Icarus: Why Communists Should Vote for Democrats

by J.Ryder

In his latest, J. Ryder argues that, like the myth of Icarus, the Democratic Party flies on wings held together by opposition to the GOP. The closer it moves toward total victory, the more those wings threaten to melt. This essay argues that Marxists should help propel that flight—not to preserve liberalism, but to support it the way “the rope supports the hanged man”—bringing about its rupture and realignment, and opening the door to a hegemonic socialist politics in the United States.