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Btw, this all makes the Corbyn debacle doubly sad. If a second wave of social democratic/welfare capitalist reforms were thinkable at all, then surely a situation where Corbyn led the UK and Sanders the US simultaneously would have been that moment of possibility. > > > I’m sorry, I must be expressing myself very clumsily, English after all is > not my first language. My question was purely about campaign strategy, I get > the rest of it. But it’s not like a candidate is going to get around the > screams of ”inflation, inflation, inflation”, so how could s/he get around > discussing higher taxes as part of what is needed to curb it eventually? I > can’t see that question going away until x years later when people see the > great new infrastructure. Just as ruling class resistance via financial > warfare won’t go away just because many of them understand that their > purported theory defending this warfare (”budget balance” etc) is a crappy > excuse. > > I hope to be proven wrong and I support any serious attempt at pushing > through real reforms, but I can’t see it happen without a mass movement > threatening the hell out of the ruling class. The limited (in time and space) > successes of social democracy after all came about through an almost perfect > storm: a vibrant labour movement, a successful revolution in a major country > that threatened to spread, two world wars and a depression within the space > of 30 years destroying massive amounts of capital, the war economy and the > collective effort needed to win the war, and on top of that took place in > countries that benefited from centuries of globally highly uneven > industrialization ultimately fed by the spoils of colonialism. > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
