You had me till you mentioned democracy, even the founding fathers in their writings explain it's a con-job, and it's only gone downhill from there. Even Saint FDR was busy buying time till external threats were done away with. Worst thing to happen to American working class was the collapse of the Soviet Union, no threat means no hold bared on beating down the peonage. Now they need to get rid of China and Russia so they can finish the job.
The idea of socialist democracy is valid and has a very mainly unofficial historical record: no one wants to be enslaved. The democracy we have is not the one we deserve or are told exists, but it does impose expectations, and that is significant: you can't make something happen of you have no concept of it. So "western democracies" must put up some kind of show, keep the true power structure under wraps, or the game is up totally. The system needs the support of the populace in this regard and is inhibited in its methods. So power will try to avoid a showdown, and that will be difficult because the "lesser evil" tactic can't be flogged forever.
Could not agree more! Liberal capitalism was a response to the fear of revolution from below. Once d'etente was firmly entrenched and it was clear that the USSR was not a pressing threat, the push to weaken unions began. After the USSR fell, oligarchs became bolder and bolder. And there is no reason to believe that business would not push living standards down to Zimbabwean levels if they could.
You had me till you mentioned democracy, even the founding fathers in their writings explain it's a con-job, and it's only gone downhill from there. Even Saint FDR was busy buying time till external threats were done away with. Worst thing to happen to American working class was the collapse of the Soviet Union, no threat means no hold bared on beating down the peonage. Now they need to get rid of China and Russia so they can finish the job.
The idea of socialist democracy is valid and has a very mainly unofficial historical record: no one wants to be enslaved. The democracy we have is not the one we deserve or are told exists, but it does impose expectations, and that is significant: you can't make something happen of you have no concept of it. So "western democracies" must put up some kind of show, keep the true power structure under wraps, or the game is up totally. The system needs the support of the populace in this regard and is inhibited in its methods. So power will try to avoid a showdown, and that will be difficult because the "lesser evil" tactic can't be flogged forever.
Could not agree more! Liberal capitalism was a response to the fear of revolution from below. Once d'etente was firmly entrenched and it was clear that the USSR was not a pressing threat, the push to weaken unions began. After the USSR fell, oligarchs became bolder and bolder. And there is no reason to believe that business would not push living standards down to Zimbabwean levels if they could.