We can all work together to better the world. We were all misguided liberals at first, who wanted the world to be better but didn’t know how. We all now approach our destination in different ways but we can work together.
We can all work together to better the world. We were all misguided liberals at first, who wanted the world to be better but didn’t know how. We all now approach our destination in different ways but we can work together.
If you consider socdems and demsocs on 'the left' you don't understand the underlying philosophical differences that define a 'leftist' from a liberal, and you are just as liable to mistake a right-wing 'populist' as 'on your side' just because they throw a couple of Marxist phrases into their word-salad.
Socdems and demsocs do not have a fundamental understanding or recognition of basic leftist concepts that even most anarchists recognize, such as capital's tendency towards monopoly, that 'freedom' does not mean 'freedom of individual trade', that 'rights' do not mean 'individual property rights', nor that labor is the primary method of political organization and only lever of power that proletarian, peasant, and lumpen alike have.
They do not have the same understanding of history, and therefore are doomed to repeat themselves endlessly. The left may repeat ourselves, but we do so with the full knowledge of the material history that forces that repetition, and not the sheer idealism that says 'Maybe this time the despots will be enlightened!'
Point of order, democratic socialists do, theyre just incredibly naive about how democratic bourgeois democracy is