Non-Western Country: "Our State is Marxist and eventually we hope to achieve communism." USA Socialists: "Not REAL socialism! Rich people exist!" Bernie Sanders: "Workers owning the means of production? Haha no…I just wanna tax billionaires." USA Socialists: "Our revolution!!"
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Yes, an opportunity to resume infighting is definitely what the left should be searching for right now.
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Yes, we should never criticize social democrats who not only don't even promise to dismantle imperialism or to give meaningful control to workers, but who also fail to implement the meager social reforms they do promise. They are beyond criticism, certainly.
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Yessss everyone into Bernie was totally only on board because he represented the full extent of their political dreams and not because he offered some breadcrumbs of actual left policy. People definitely weren’t thinking about anything beyond him!! Right??
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I feel like "being so dense as to think this tweet applies to everyone who supported Sanders" is as bad as being so dense as to think there aren't far too many Sanders supporters that lack the imagination necessary to conceive of anything to the left of industrial paternalism.
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Wait, you mean imperialism is a real thing?!
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Yeah. It’s the invisible stage that electoralists and socdems stand on, when giving soaring speeches about inequality.
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Hot take but perhaps a large portion of his supporters agree with this anyway
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