By A. Shaw

“This campaign is not simply about electing me, I hope we accomplish that, but that isn’t the most important thing. The most important thing is building a political movement in which millions of people who have given up on the political process, including a lot of young people, get involved,” Senator Bernie Sanders said.
It may follow that a part of the movement is the campaign to elect Bernie. And, it may also follow that another part of the movement is not the Sanders campaign.
But at the current stage, the campaign is more or less the movement. At this stage, without the campaign, there is virtually no movement.
In time, the movement evolves separately from the campaign.
Now, what is the common ground that would unite a movement and campaign?
The common ground seems to be electoral know-how that the campaign now mostly possesses.
Know-how wins or seizes state power while don’t-know-how loses power.
At this stage, the movement has more don’t-know-how than know-how.
In the early stages, the movement depends on the campaign.
As the movement acquires know-how, it separates from the campaign.
When the movement is full of know-how, it’s almost indestructible and almost absolutely independent.
A campaign dies when it wins or loses, like Nov. 2016. The movement however may continue, win or lose.
If the separation of movement from campaign happens before enough know-how enters the movement, the movement may drop dead.
In Nov. 2008, the separation happened before the movement got enough know-how. So, the movement dropped dead as Obama intended.
In the Manifesto, Marx and Engels called know-how “weapons” and they called movement “the working class.” There are four references in the Manifesto to “weapons.”