• anthm17 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Maybe we can rebuild the unions and our parties differently this time, and find ways to make them harder to break.

    See that's not a new idea.

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      4 years ago

      Why does it have to be a completely new idea? Why throw the entire historical memory of Marxism away? Generation X tried doing this in search of completely original ideas and it got them almost nowhere, compared to the progress made since Occupy in 2011.

      • anthm17 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Well you're doing the same thing expecting different results and you're doing exactly what every power structure is designed to stop you from doing.

        It's insanity. It's like trying to fight a war by exclusively attacking the enemies most fortified positions head on.

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          This is where I disagree. Marxism is a science, not a dogma. We aren't acting identically to how Marxists did a century ago, because conditions are different and we have extra information to work with. There are tried and tested approaches that we know can work under certain conditions, which we still use because they've yielded at least limited, partial, or small successes.

      • anthm17 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        There has been no progress since 2011, things have only gotten worse and we have no reason whatsoever to expect that trajector to do anything but steepen.

        A bunch of libs who think socialism means free health care aren't going to change that.