“It reminds us of John Dewey’s claim that, “As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”

In the US, the two-party political system has proven extremely effective in this regard. Aside from differences on social issues like abortion and gay marriage, as well as socioeconomic issues like unemployment insurance and public assistance, both parties ultimately embrace capitalist/corporatist interests in that they both serve as facilitators for the dominant classes: The Republican Party in its role as forerunner, pushing the limits of the capitalist model to the brink of fascism; and the Democratic Party in its role as governor, providing intermittent degrees of slack and pull against this inevitable move towards a “corporate-fascistic state of being.” — “Calibrating the Capitalist State in the Neoliberal Era: Equilibrium, Superstructure, and the Pull Towards a Corporate-Fascistic Model” Colin Jenkins

https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/calibrating-the-capitalist-state-in-the-neoliberal-era-equilibrium-superstructure-and-the-pull-towards-a-corporate-fascistic-model

from fuckcapitalism2020

  • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
    103·
    1 year ago

    Damage control! Damage control! Better of the two evils! Democrats are actually good because they aren’t directly overtly Nazis (at least not all the time)!

    Also banning books? Really? That’s the line you’re going with? Even in that scenario, I am so happy with all the amazing work that the democrats have done to oppose the bans! Oops! They don’t do shit! They just performatively shake their heads and wag their fingers.

      • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
        6·
        1 year ago

        Enlightened centrism? What are you talking about?

        Both of the parties are horrid pieces of shit, and you’re just to far up your own ass to see that.

        The Democratic Party has caused a horrific amount of death, destruction, and pain. They have accomplished nothing. At most giving paltry scraps and concessions.

        It’s not centrism, the parties are the same fucking team.

          • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            You think I don’t know what an Enlightened Centrist is???

            I’m saying you’re beyond stupid for thinking the centrism is between the Democrats and the Republicans. Two right wing parties.

            Get your head out of your American centric ass, and learn anything about this world and politics.