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@ Cowbee @lemmy.ml

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Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us

He/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much

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  • No, I fundamentally disagree with your entire view of historical development, ie the why behind everything.

    History is a progression of material conditions, not people and ideas, not Great Individuals making Big Moves. Social Democracy came at a time when the Soviet Union was rising, and Capitalists within America feared similar uprisings in America, compounded by the Great Depression. Concessions were allowed in that context, temporarily.

    Neoliberalism came later, after WWII, during the height of the Cold War. It was a way to further seek profits in the Global South.

    Fascism is rising now because Capitalism is undoubtedly in decline, and is decaying further.

    Material Conditions drive the ideas that drive the masses that drive what's salient, not random Great People doing everything.

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  • That’s a neat way to say “being too lazy to actually make a difference, but I don’t want to feel bad about it”.

    I don't believe the way forward is by passing laws in a system that cannot be reformed into a good one, so it doesn't make sense to judge my praxis by passing laws within said system.

    I'll just add that if you aren't interested in passing laws you should vote for Harris if only to annoy the Right.

    I think this right here illustrates your political views perfectly, "owning the chuds" is more important than actually working towards progress.

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  • Why would passing laws be my concern? The answer is 0.

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  • FDR was okay, then his safety nets were stripped away. They were only ever temporary concessions because Capitalists were always the ones in control, and they still are. In this manner, it was eventually no motion.

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  • Gotcha, I'll keep organizing outside the useless electoral system.

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  • FDR was a Social Democrat, not a Socialist.

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  • If my relatively tame comments defending the basics of Marxism get me banned, then they will be doing me a favor.

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  • So if they can't vote for their views now, and we keep pushing the duopoly, when do we get democracy?

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  • Absolutely.

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  • You don't have to, that isn't my point. My point is that countless quantitative changes over time result in qualitative ones. Society is wildly different as Capitalism continues to decay, and the 2 parties continue to move forward with that decay. There will be a turning point.

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  • Yep, which is why Socialists answered the Reform or Revolution question in Marx's time quite definitively. The answer is Revolution.

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  • If anything, letting Democrats win the next few major elections could spell doom for the Republican party as a whole, and give us a chance to introduce some actual competition to the Democratic party.

    This will never happen. The replacement party will be fascist. The Republican Party's fascism doesn't exist because of "brainwashing" or "conmen," it exists because fascism rises from decaying Capitalism. If you don't get rid of the Capitalism, the conditions for fascism remain.

    That means we need to abolish the electoral college, introduce universal mail-in voting, defeat all right-wing disenfranchisement efforts, and introduce ranked-choice voting to all elections. These are radical changes that will take a lot of work to accomplish, and that will face a lot of opposition.

    Under Democrat leadership, these things are possible. Under Republican leadership, we'll be lucky if we still have elections.

    The Democrats will never work against their donors. This will never happen.

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  • As we all know, time doesn't pass and yesterday is today. Nothing ever happens for any reason. The world is exactly the same as it was decades ago.

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  • Is the US Socialist? Has Socialism been brought about by establishment parties anywhere in history?

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    TIL over 500'000 German prisoners of war died in forced labour camps, after the German surrender, while detained in the Soviet Union. With the latest survivors only being released a decade later.

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  • For context, the Nazis took 6 million POWs and murdered 3 million. Far higher death rate, far higher in totality. The Nazis destroyed large parts of the USSR and murdered millions of Soviet civilians and POWs.

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  • In case you're being sarcastic, West Germany was not de-Nazified to any real extent, the Western Powers were extremely lenient on punishing Nazis in general.

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  • Funny and probably would have dramatically changed the world stage as it exists today.

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  • Wonder what the world would look like today if Germany had been thoroughly purged of Nazism, rather than a slap on the wrists.

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  • It says in the article, "West Germany."