I see your logic and I agree that moving to social democracy would be a huge improvement but we already experienced this during the Great Depression and it only lasted long enough to cripple the nascent socialist movement in America and then started to get stripped away once we were no longer a serious threat to capital. And because of the trajectory we are on with the climate and capitalism in general just decaying to shit, we're going to get punished for that because we've tied ourselves to the withering welfare capitalist system and the only alternative that Americans would be interested in at that point is fascism because there's no independent socialist movement that made itself distinguished from the liberals that have ruined everyone's lives.
it only lasted long enough to cripple the nascent socialist movement in America
The socialist movement was crippled during the first Red Scare, long before the Depression even hit. Eugene Debs' last presidential run was in 1920, and it came from a prison cell. CPUSA's membership peaked after the New Deal.
Foregoing policies that help people right now is just accelerationism, and about the only strategy riskier than that is doing nothing at all. You can't build a movement by offering people nothing, or at least nothing until things get significantly worse.
I see your logic and I agree that moving to social democracy would be a huge improvement but we already experienced this during the Great Depression and it only lasted long enough to cripple the nascent socialist movement in America and then started to get stripped away once we were no longer a serious threat to capital. And because of the trajectory we are on with the climate and capitalism in general just decaying to shit, we're going to get punished for that because we've tied ourselves to the withering welfare capitalist system and the only alternative that Americans would be interested in at that point is fascism because there's no independent socialist movement that made itself distinguished from the liberals that have ruined everyone's lives.
The socialist movement was crippled during the first Red Scare, long before the Depression even hit. Eugene Debs' last presidential run was in 1920, and it came from a prison cell. CPUSA's membership peaked after the New Deal.
Foregoing policies that help people right now is just accelerationism, and about the only strategy riskier than that is doing nothing at all. You can't build a movement by offering people nothing, or at least nothing until things get significantly worse.