you can’t deliver successful socialist policies through electoralism in the most violent, expansive capitalist state on earth. you can deliver social democracy, maybe, at the expense of the global south. electoral success in imperial capitalist society = inevitable compromise to the point of abandoning either internationalism or socialist domestic policy.
how is it american exceptionalism. it’s literally a criticism Marxists have levelled against bourgeois democracy for over a hundred years. i’m not even american
you can’t deliver successful socialist policies through electoralism in the most violent, expansive capitalist state on earth. you can deliver social democracy, maybe, at the expense of the global south. electoral success in imperial capitalist society = inevitable compromise to the point of abandoning either internationalism or socialist domestic policy.
That’s American exceptionalism, and it only applies if you are 100% honest in your politics on the campaign trail, which I’m saying you shouldn’t be.
If you woke up tomorrow morning as mayor of NYC, or even president of the US, what would you do?
how is it american exceptionalism. it’s literally a criticism Marxists have levelled against bourgeois democracy for over a hundred years. i’m not even american