SaltyAmerican to Late Stage Capitalism · 1 month agoThey prevent liberation by selling you back your chains with populous rhetoric and slogansimagemessage-square238linkfedilinkarrow-up1561arrow-down1111
arrow-up1450arrow-down1imageThey prevent liberation by selling you back your chains with populous rhetoric and slogansSaltyAmerican to Late Stage Capitalism · 1 month agomessage-square238linkfedilink
minus-squareSaltyAmericanOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10·1 month 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-down10·1 month 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-229 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-up9·1 month agoThey sure as shit weren’t passed by mindless loyalty to the Democratic party
minus-squareEnsign_CrablinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month 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.