The LEFT in general is not wise to scorn any number of " bourgeois " democratic values

A very INDEPENDENT democratic socialist myself I do recall voting for Socialist Equality presidential candidate, Jerry White, back then. I can only wonder how many unrepentant Marxist political parties remain, proud and not beaten down, in the world today . More than a century after the brilliant promise of the Russian Revolution of 1917 they still preach the CLASS STRUGGLE. I do note that the LEFT in general is not wise to scorn any number of " bourgeois " democratic values -like the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization. Nor does routinely bashing religion - with much verbal vitriol directed at Catholicism - help build a movement of the working class MASSES. Also ,Jews who are fanatical about APARTHEID Israel, very pro-Zionist Jews , Jews fanatical about the blessings of CAPITALISM in general , and also flag waving supporters of American imperialism, even under the banner of " PROGRESSIVE Democrats " , are ,despite the reality of malignant anti-Semitism , anti-socialist enemies of the working class of the whole world. Let " socialist " Bernie Sanders speak for himself. Up to a point he might be worthy of " critical support ". But since 2016 he is little more than a shell of a broken promise. I like what James P. Cannon wrote way back in 1948 ( ? ) in an long editorial titled " The Treason of the Intellectuals ". Not a few of them came from a Jewish background. One going from Trotskyism to the staff of conservative William H. Buckley. Irving Howe told the truth about many radical Jews in his book " World of Our Fathers ". I did read read socialist Irving Howe's political autobiography " A Margin of Hope ". Quite an honest writer , I thought , and an excellent literary critic.