• pingveno@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    So if they wanted a different approach, how would voting express that?

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      If we in the west want a different approach, how would voting express that? It’s impossible to change our neoliberal and social democratic system via voting.

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        2 years ago

        Get people to agree with you. Petition your representatives. Protest. There are plenty of options, but you don’t get change just because you believe you are right, and sometimes you have to compromise.

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          You forgot the final step: have your movement destroyed and/or silenced if it inconveniences the ruling class in the slightest. As history has shown us time and time again.

          You’re free to vote for change within a social democratic framework (which makes very little difference anyways), but you can’t change that framework.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 years ago

      Go read up on Deng reforms in China which introduced aspects of capitalism into the system. It’s worth noting that nothing equivalent would be possible in a western style democracy. It’s absolutely unthinkable for any western country to integrate aspects of Marxism into the system.

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        Bob’s Red Mill is owned by its employees. Providing shares as part of compensation is fairly common. Does that not qualify as integrating aspects of Marxism (workers owning the means of production), albeit implemented in a different way?