This website is like 100% "don't vote" stuff, but shouldn't we? Like... if our DemSoc comrades are asking us to get out and vote, shouldn't we do so out of solidarity?

Someone explain to me why this is a bad thing. Cause i'm legit not seeing it.

    • phimosis__jones [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Olaf Palme was quite different from Blair on both foreign and domestic policy. A better British counterpart to him ideologically would be someone like Tony Benn (but Benn was never PM so we cant discuss the theory/praxis distinction). Blair didn't fail to defend any achievements, he succeeded in giving a human face to Thatcherism and cementing a neoliberal consensus, and he was so successful in transforming Labour that the party's immune response to Corbyn was successful. Blairism is a departure from socdem ideology, not a weakened version of it.

        • phimosis__jones [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I think we need to consider the fact that "actual" social democracy, which asks for a partial nationalization of the economy and sectoral collective bargaining and a cradle-to-grave welfare state is quite distinct from the third way liberalism the traditional socdem parties have come to embrace. The center-left parties have become revisionists of revisionism.