SaltyAmerican@lemmy.world to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world · 7 days agoThey prevent liberation by selling you back your chains with populous rhetoric and sloganslemmy.worldimagemessage-square241linkfedilinkarrow-up1557arrow-down1110
arrow-up1447arrow-down1imageThey prevent liberation by selling you back your chains with populous rhetoric and sloganslemmy.worldSaltyAmerican@lemmy.world to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world · 7 days agomessage-square241linkfedilink
minus-squareSaltyAmerican@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down9·6 days agoAnyone paying attention to political history in the US knows it is an inherent function of the party. Liberals have always been the gatekeepers of capital, always placing a firewall between the left and structural change.
minus-squareprotist@retrofed.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down10·6 days agoThat’s how they passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, huh? By stopping structural change
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-24 days agoThose weren’t passed by voting Blue no matter who, but by organizing, unionizing, striking, protesting, and threatening revolt. Power concedes nothing without a demand. If you don’t threaten politicians’ careers, they will ignore your pleas. Unless of course you have the capital to buy favor, which capitalists have and do. Schoolhouse Rock and The West Wing have endumbened us all.
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 days agoThey sure as shit weren’t passed by mindless loyalty to the Democratic party
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 days agoAnd I thought that coasting on the 15 year old ACA was a stretch. The party is not the party of LBJ any longer. It’s the party of Netanyahu.
Anyone paying attention to political history in the US knows it is an inherent function of the party. Liberals have always been the gatekeepers of capital, always placing a firewall between the left and structural change.
That’s how they passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, huh? By stopping structural change
Those weren’t passed by voting Blue no matter who, but by organizing, unionizing, striking, protesting, and threatening revolt.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. If you don’t threaten politicians’ careers, they will ignore your pleas.
Unless of course you have the capital to buy favor, which capitalists have and do.
Schoolhouse Rock and The West Wing have endumbened us all.
They sure as shit weren’t passed by mindless loyalty to the Democratic party
And I thought that coasting on the 15 year old ACA was a stretch. The party is not the party of LBJ any longer. It’s the party of Netanyahu.