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forjusticethunders

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8. "Selling Out the Working Class"

Reply to TBF (Reply #7)

Fri Apr 29, 2016, 09:39 AM

Apr 2016

Because political strategies that have done nothing but hurt the working class in the name of helping them will surely work if we try them again.

Because the only way to attain socialism is one big systemic revolution without regard to the post-revolution, or I guess we'll just make it up as we go along, because that surely worked in 1917.

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The Intersectional Working Class Shall Be The Human Race (rough draft) [View all] forjusticethunders Apr 2016 OP

K&R Starry Messenger Apr 2016 #1

I've thought about it forjusticethunders Apr 2016 #3

LOve this obamanut2012 Apr 2016 #2

Well this is a far more verbose way to telling people to settle - TBF Apr 2016 #4

Yeah, that's a left-reformist position........ socialist_n_TN Apr 2016 #5

The issue is that: forjusticethunders Apr 2016 #6

^ This is again incremental centrist nonsense that belongs in a different forum. TBF Apr 2016 #7

"Selling Out the Working Class" forjusticethunders Apr 2016 #8

You're going to need to be a lot more specific TBF Apr 2016 #9

How is that red baiting? forjusticethunders Apr 2016 #10

You are dismissing revolution when it certainly has changed the landscape - TBF Apr 2016 #11

The problem is that while it may be too late for the "long march" forjusticethunders Apr 2016 #12

Bernie did not "lose" - he has had an election stolen TBF Apr 2016 #13

And about the "demographic groups" that don't understand Bernie - TBF Apr 2016 #14

By the numbers...... socialist_n_TN May 2016 #15

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