what’s the end goal here Zohran. ‘Socialism’ (actually social democracy) but with a roving gang of armed and organized fascists that we just ignore? are we just going to kick the issue of systemic racism down the road because it’s “woke 1” to even talk about, until it becomes a powder keg again? this is the actual internal DSA white chauvinism contradiction that MSM are clawing to find but they won’t use it as a real wedge because it’d increase the salience of Defund again

  • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    il y a 19 jours

    Personally I think history is a poor predictor for the future.

    If the universe makes sense, if literally anything is actionable except for the arbitrary dictates of a God, this cannot be true. We need to avoid hasty equivocation between past and present circumstances just as we need to avoid hasty equivocation between contemporary circumstances in different places, but there is truly nothing to be done if you take this stance.

    I believe the bigger issue is that there is no modern and coherent and mostly complete socialist theory that can serve as an actionable political platform. Something concise, and written in recent history.

    You have seriously let the liberals gaslight you about Marxism being too old. Yes, new analysis must always be conducted and new strategies formed to meet new conditions (and research done to correct old mistakes, including Marx’s mistakes), but the fundamental framework of Marxism is still the best basis we have.