03-26-2021, 07:30 AM
(03-26-2021, 01:11 AM)Einzige Wrote: I mean, I am a Marxist. An actual Communist. What you think the Democrats are, but they aren't (and they don't pretend to be).
There's no distinction between the Democratic and Republican Parties other than the mealy interests of their social bases. One caters more to extractive and manufacturing interests, the other to financial and importing interests. There isn't a Goddamn lick of difference otherwise
Really? Do you mean that there is no meaningful difference between Donald Trump and either his predecessor or his successor? That there is no difference between Senator Ron "reincarnation of Joseph R. McCarthy?" Johnson and Tammy Baldwin?
As it is, the Republican and Democratic Parties differ in their bases of support... well, that is how democratic systems work. The British reform bills of the nineteenth century that improved the conditions of the working class had the sponsorship of the more agrarian Tories; those same Tories exploited farm labor badly. Eventually the more Whig-like, industrial Liberals got power and used it to reform living conditions among the rural proletariat.
I recognize that we all need to see the politics of super-rich interests with some distrust. The greatest profits come from the establishment and exploitation of scarcity.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.