This is exactly why reforms for reform's sake cannot be the goal. You didn't get healthcare by voting Bernie, because the ruling class used its control over the Democratic Party to deny you healthcare. That was an act of class warfare. The ruling class everywhere is pushing austerity, pushing the opposite direction of reform, and you're not going to buck this trend just by requesting reforms through the electoral channels of the capitalist state.
You won't get these reforms in the future, unless we force concessions through class struggle, which will require us to use working class methods of struggle (i.e. acting in our capacity as workers whose labor literally allows society to run), with the goal of winning the fucking class war.
Winning reforms and winning the class war cannot be separate aims, or we will fail at both. If you're a boxer, going into a fight against a strong opponent, and your only goal is to land a left hook in the opening round, you're going to lose the fight. You may not even be able to land the left hook without setting it up with other punches. That left hook has to be part of a broader strategy, and the aim of that strategy must be to win the fight. Your strategy will dictate why, and therefore how, you throw individual punches.
Ultimately, winning the class war is the basis of how we can build a better society for working people, it is the promise we can hold out to working people to rally them behind our program. Capitalism, as a global system, has long since reached the limit of its progressive potential--no progress is going to be had through sustained reform of the capitalist system, because the system can no longer support sustained reform.
This is exactly why reforms for reform's sake cannot be the goal. You didn't get healthcare by voting Bernie, because the ruling class used its control over the Democratic Party to deny you healthcare. That was an act of class warfare. The ruling class everywhere is pushing austerity, pushing the opposite direction of reform, and you're not going to buck this trend just by requesting reforms through the electoral channels of the capitalist state.
You won't get these reforms in the future, unless we force concessions through class struggle, which will require us to use working class methods of struggle (i.e. acting in our capacity as workers whose labor literally allows society to run), with the goal of winning the fucking class war.
Winning reforms and winning the class war cannot be separate aims, or we will fail at both. If you're a boxer, going into a fight against a strong opponent, and your only goal is to land a left hook in the opening round, you're going to lose the fight. You may not even be able to land the left hook without setting it up with other punches. That left hook has to be part of a broader strategy, and the aim of that strategy must be to win the fight. Your strategy will dictate why, and therefore how, you throw individual punches.
Ultimately, winning the class war is the basis of how we can build a better society for working people, it is the promise we can hold out to working people to rally them behind our program. Capitalism, as a global system, has long since reached the limit of its progressive potential--no progress is going to be had through sustained reform of the capitalist system, because the system can no longer support sustained reform.