• bleph@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So until we get single payer healthcare, you won’t be happy with any other policy wins and you’d rather burn all your political capital fighting us instead of uniting against the literal fascists? Please tell me how that makes sense.

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      1 year ago

      The left, the real socialist left doesn’t have political capital. So there’s nothing to burn. Incremental policy is great to alleviate suffering, but ultimately is masturbatory. Fascism will eventually overcome America. This explains why. Waiting for real, substantial policy changes with climate change happening is denialism. We’re waiting for enough people to realize this so we can organize and fight for the future.

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        1 year ago

        I found that argument very unconvincing.

        I think the author’s definition of fascism is nonsensical and ahistorical.

        I agree that capitalism has the tendency to concentrate power (like every other social or political system ever in the history of humans), but the idea that we should just abandon the levers of power to the kind of people who want Donald Trump to be president is so insane to me.

        The author even concedes that Donald Trump is uniquely bad but then bends over backwards trying to get back to his comfortable “both sides” narrative

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          1 year ago

          I agree that it is insane to concede power to fascism. I have kids and will be voting for Biden for this reason. I’m aware that when full fascism comes, it will not be pretty. But I also understand that capitalism will eventually decay into fascism. So, I am sympathetic to those that want to do something outside the system of just voting. I’m not trying to change your mind. I’m just trying to make people understand the situation we’re in.

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            1 year ago

            Well I’m glad I don’t have to have the Cornel West argument here.

            I think we agree that the whole Earth is in a dangerous and precarious situation and far too many people are still not acknowledging this?

            Do you disagree that Biden has delivered more policy for the Left as a whole than any president since LBJ?

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              1 year ago

              Civil rights and the voter rights act were pretty big, so I don’t know. Biden has done more for the environment( he needs to do more) and that affects us all. I like Biden. I think he wants to do more. But he is beholden to the DNC and it’s corporate donors. When he gets his next term, expect him to do more.

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                1 year ago

                Well if we’re talking “abolish the 2-party system” (with electoral reform) then I’m 100% agreed

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                  1 year ago

                  The DNC won’t let that happen. If they didn’t course correct after Bernie / Hillary, they never will. She should’ve picked him as VP. They would have freaked out.

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                    1 year ago

                    I 100% agree both parties will resist as much as possible.

                    I personally think campaigning for electoral reform is better than trying to fully overthrow the existing system but I agree it is a very uphill battle.

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        1 year ago

        So … all capitalism is fascism; therefore “both sides are the same”; therefore reject incremental progress as illegitimate?

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          1 year ago

          Incremental progress is not illegitimate. It’s just never going to be enough to solve the problem that is capitalism. If it were, the New Deal would have fixed this system and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

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            1 year ago

            Ok…so because the New Deal didn’t… overthrow capitalism forever… therefore working within the system is pointless?

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                  Social democracies aren’t socialism. They have unions, co-ops, but they don’t own the means of production. They are capitalism with heavy regulation and strong social policies. And they are already regressing. If we were a more socially democratic, my opinion might be different, But, historically, the reality that capitalism decays into fascism would still be true.

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                    Why do you assume that socialist systems won’t also experience a gravitational pull towards fascism? In my opinion that’s universal across all political systems. Also aren’t all extant “state owns the means of production” counties quite fascist?

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                  At least read what he posted before replying. We don’t need to build another reddit where people just rage at each other on behalf of their team.

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                    1 year ago

                    For the record, when I posted that reply the parent only read “yes 🙌”

                    I was saltier than I would like to be in retrospect though, I cut it out of a comment.

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      They probably mean something of that scale. Working people have only been losing protections, rights, and safetynets for 50 years, not gaining them, all, to lower the taxes of the sliver of the population that already wanted for nothing and got rich thanks to the system they then wanted to avoid paying back into.

      The person you’re replying to is spot on. As our roads and other commons cumble, as our public education system, that provides a pre-literate workforce that profits the oligarchs btw, sits in utter ruin due to lack of funding, as we have more prisoners per capita in the world to enrich the for profit prison industry, as the world burns from companies polluting with abandon for private profit, this rigged system has proven on no uncertain terms that it works against those who lack significant capital to further enrich those who do not. After so long, yeah, it would reasonably take a massive policy change that helps the people in significant way on the backs of against the desires of the owner to get anyone paying attention’s good will back.

      Don’t worry though, it won’t happen.

      If you want people to have faith in a system that works against them every day and has for their entire lives on the promise of “maybe you’ll kick the ball on try 10,006 Charlie Brown,” you don’t make any sense.