• dumbass2022 [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as socialistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of socialism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Sometimes I have to wonder if Marx was the most correctest man who ever lived, to the point he could accurately predict politics 150 years after he died, or if politics have not essentially changed in that time

      • NotARobot [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        In mike duncan's season on 1848, he talks a bit about how the largely liberal provisional government in france did multiple things to undermine the few socialists who were basically only let in in the first place because they were that popular. One thing they did was they basically assigned all of the socialists to this thing called the "luxembourg commission" where the they would come up with proposals on how to fix problems that the liberals could then disregard. Another was that they created the national workshop meant to guarantee the right to work and instead of putting one of the socialists in charge they put in a massive reactionary who was opposed to its very existence, and then when it failed intentionally, "oh well we tried guess it didn't work."

        I think in many ways things have not changed.

        • riley
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          9 months ago

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      • regul [any]
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        2 years ago

        Oh, you like the Foundation tv show? You'd love the source material. No, not the Asimov books. Kapital by Karl Marx.