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cooler commie than elph
Join Date: Sep 2012
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Why not? Not even progressive reforms come without a pressure from below. Bernie Sanders is no revolutionary, but the only reason he was able to win support was because people in America were already sick of economic inequality, political corruption, starvation wages and crippling debt. Sanders' promise to punish the bankers responsible for the financial crisis of 2008 wasn't something he came up with himself, it had been written on the signs of Occupy Wall Street protestors years earlier. Also, politicians have a tendency to get assimilated by the establishment once they're elected. The Norwegian Labor Party gained popularity based on their revolutionary socialist platform. But when they came in position, their revolutionary edge was gradually blunted, and today they're the most ardent supporters of capitalism and the general status-quo. This applies to most European social-democratic parties.
As Billy Bragg put it in his version of "The Internationale": "although they offer us concessions, change will not come from above". Quote:
Things happened.
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