*None* of the present candidates is fit to lead the country during an actual crisis. Most don’t even have integrity; all of them are unable to think systemically and deeply understand what we are up against. The preselection process is totally broken.
All European social democratic traditions eventually bought into the notion that the working class *should* be working in the factories of the bourgeoisie, but to favorable conditions. The communist traditions preferred the rule of the working class, which did not work out well.
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I think this is where they erred. They just excepted less exploitation. Additionally, many of their rights were given only because of the bloody class revolutions of European past. The same holds true for American worker rights.
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Note that Marx and Engels were not members of the working class, but of the bourgeoisie. They had a vision of changing the cultural identity of the working class into theirs. However, the working class in socialist countries did not become the carrier class of culture.
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