• Owl [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Dumb as hell, but props for making social democracy the reasonable center, instead of the status quo like every other horseshoe theory brain genius.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      According to its own argument at the bottom, social democracy is the status quo for what it calls "developed" countries. :us-foreign-policy:

      • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        There's a reason social democracy is the status quo for "developed" countries: Because it relies on imperialism to fuel social welfare. Bourgeois reforms involve decrease pressure on the domestic labor, and increased pressure on the imperial periphery. The bourgeoisie sacrifice very little with social democracy, which is why they allow it every century or so as a sort of bourgeois-guided "redistribution".

    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Dumb as hell, but props for making social democracy the reasonable center

      Social democracy is just capitalists realizing it's in their own long term interests to curtail their short term interests. It is ultimately bourgeois rule. The New Deal extended the life of American Capitalism by about 70 years. Scraps from porky's table. The moderate wing of fascism. :bugs-stalin: