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[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 11 months ago

Exactly, there's no path towards turning things around politically. I think the last chance to save capitalism was the whole green new deal thing that Sanders was pushing. These were minimally necessary changes to arrest the decline, and the establishment soundly rejected that idea. So, we know for a fact that it's not possible to do anything differently.

[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago

I think the last chance to save capitalism was the whole green new deal thing that Sanders was pushing.

Capitalism is doomed? inshallah

[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 11 months ago

It's not a good thing, at least in the short term. Without the right intervention, the decline of capitalism is the rise of fascism.

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is the wrong way to think about things. The task of communists is not to save capitalism from itself (as the social democrats wish to do) out of fear of fascists taking over. It is to build a disciplined, militant and class conscious revolutionary movement such that when the time comes it is us and not the fascists who will lead the masses. It is a complete waste of your energies to worry about whether capitalism is declining too quickly. If it is declining quickly that just means we have a better opportunity to educate, agitate and organize, taking advantage of the discontent that the decline is causing. The more the collapse accelerates the more we must redouble our efforts.

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