(04-19-2021, 11:56 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(04-19-2021, 11:51 PM)Einzige Wrote: The Keynesian Democrats of ths 1930s-1960s, if confronted with an issue like man-made climate change, would absolutely have nationalized the energy industry, not because they were socialist (they weren't) but because nationalization is a sensible capitalist response to crisis.
Biden is a neoliberal, cut from the same cloth as Bill Clinton.
No, nationalizing industries is socialist, and Keynesian Democrats would not have even considered this. They were capitalists, "embedded liberals." Learn your history.
No, Biden and all Democrats, including Bill Clinton himself, have moved left during this 4T era. Clinton in 1993 would never have proposed, let alone get passed, $2 and $3 trillion spending bills.
1. No it isn't. Read Engels.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/wo...p/ch03.htm
Quote:But, the transformation — either into joint-stock companies and trusts, or into State-ownership — does not do away with the capitalistic nature of the productive forces. In the joint-stock companies and trusts, this is obvious. And the modern State, again, is only the organization that bourgeois society takes on in order to support the external conditions of the capitalist mode of production against the encroachments as well of the workers as of individual capitalists. The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine — the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital. The more it proceeds to the taking over of productive forces, the more does it actually become the national capitalist, the more citizens does it exploit. The workers remain wage-workers — proletarians. The capitalist relation is not done away with. It is, rather, brought to a head. But, brought to a head, it topples over.
Nationalization is not socialism. This is why FDR nationalized Louisiana's oil industry, to Huey Long's chagrin.
2. Biden is spending 11 billion more on the military this year than Trump spent in his last term. Why is that?
This guy is a noncommunist, pro-capitalist Leftist. He also identifies Obama and Biden as neolibs.