The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(05-25-2021, 11:12 AM)Einzige Wrote: Lol. Yes, the Democrats don't serve Capital at all. They really are the Marxist proletarian Party the Republicans accuse them of being.

Dumkopf.

I am on the autistic spectrum. Although I am able to express sarcasm effectively, I tend to interpret what I read literally.

By the way -- many American capitalists are wise enough to recognize that profit maximization through monopolization of the economy, brutalization of managerial conditions, and driving wages to a starvation level is just perfect -- for making a proletarian revolution of the sort that exiles much of the economic elite and exterminates the rest possible. So some liberal tendencies keep capitalism from becoming a brutal but ultimately self-destructive plutocracy. Social orders that do that, like Imperial Russia, show catastrophic weaknesses in war (like an inadequate network of roads and communications and a precarious supply of food). People get cold, hungry, and scared, and they start to fall for any demagogue.

However much you may see the class struggle as the highest expression of human struggle, it is also one of potentially the most destructive... and it is in no means predictable in its result. Just think of Chile in the 1970's: the leftist struggle failed, and the country became a nightmare for anyone not already filthy rich or connected to the monstrous regime of Agosto Pinochet. For many, the inevitable triumph of the proletariat means little because some torturer has attached electrodes to their genitals and makes that the focus of life at the moment. The reactionaries can have their moments, as in the demonic Third Reich, when work is mandatory but feeding those who do the work is not.

My ideology is humanism. If socialism is necessary for the advancement of humanism, then I am a socialist. If it gets in the way, then I reject socialism.