Absolutly. People forget how many governments with vast survaillance infrastructure completly fell apart in the 20/21th century. How US intelligence couldn't even stop the Taliban from organizing an effective resistance. How we don't life in a time were marxists are exiled like Marx himself or almost all Bolsheviks, their books not prohibited ect. The establishment was always against us, but material conditions ultimatly trump the superstructure.
The left in the last few decades struggled with an effective message that is actually attractive and believable to most workers. Mostly because many leftists are still soccdems and social democracy only partially worked because the special conditions created by WWII. Today it always fails because it doesn't understand capitalism. The radical left on the other hand gets bogged down in foreign policy and history discourse and sometimes puts idpol in the center of the message, all of which usually fail to appeal to the average worker.
On the other hand: Clearly it must be open to minorities and not bigoted. The message must be "Lets fight for our common class interest together", not "White-Cis-hetero-Workers only".
Absolutly. People forget how many governments with vast survaillance infrastructure completly fell apart in the 20/21th century. How US intelligence couldn't even stop the Taliban from organizing an effective resistance. How we don't life in a time were marxists are exiled like Marx himself or almost all Bolsheviks, their books not prohibited ect. The establishment was always against us, but material conditions ultimatly trump the superstructure.
The left in the last few decades struggled with an effective message that is actually attractive and believable to most workers. Mostly because many leftists are still soccdems and social democracy only partially worked because the special conditions created by WWII. Today it always fails because it doesn't understand capitalism. The radical left on the other hand gets bogged down in foreign policy and history discourse and sometimes puts idpol in the center of the message, all of which usually fail to appeal to the average worker.
On the other hand: Clearly it must be open to minorities and not bigoted. The message must be "Lets fight for our common class interest together", not "White-Cis-hetero-Workers only".
Because their goal was to keep the war going, not to actually win it.