• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    What’s that quote? Something along the lines of, “electing a socialist to a bourgeois parliament doesn’t make a socialist parliament but a socialist into a bourgeois parliamentarian.” I forgot who said it

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        18 days ago

        Found it. Rosa Luxembourg wrote this in 1899 regarding the Dreyfus affair.

        The character of a bourgeois government isn’t determined by the personal character of its members, but by its organic function in bourgeois society. The government of the modern state is essentially an organisation of class domination, the regular functioning of which is one of the conditions of existence of the class state. With the entry of a socialist into the government, and class domination continuing to exist, the bourgeois government doesn’t transform itself into a socialist government, but a socialist transforms himself into a bourgeois minister.

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        Found it. Rosa Luxembourg wrote this in 1899 regarding the Dreyfus affair.

        The character of a bourgeois government isn’t determined by the personal character of its members, but by its organic function in bourgeois society. The government of the modern state is essentially an organisation of class domination, the regular functioning of which is one of the conditions of existence of the class state. With the entry of a socialist into the government, and class domination continuing to exist, the bourgeois government doesn’t transform itself into a socialist government, but a socialist transforms himself into a bourgeois minister.

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        18 days ago

        ai fucks up skin if you don’t play with it correctly (losing transformer attention at wrong resolutions), but as its stolen twitter image, whatevs