• hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Let me get this straight:

      • Despite only 5% of private sector employees being unionized, despite a decades-long trend of declining union power, and despite recent labor law changes that hurt unions, unionization is a far more promising path to socialism than
      • Electoralism, because despite Bernie coming damn close to winning the Democratic nomination, Nancy Pelosi would have just clapped him at the convention instead of letting that happen?

      These are bad takes.

      Chile

      The far more recent examples of leftist electoral success in Latin America are Chavez and Morales, and their projects are in their second decade and have survived numerous imperialist and reactionary attacks.

      The president is not inherently powerful

      Another take that's just awful on its face. I don't think we're going to get anywhere here.