So, on your view, the reason why voting for democratic socialists will fail is not because successful reforms will distract us (in the short-term), but because our present economic situation won’t allow such reforms to occur at all?
If this is true, then we are already at a historical crossroads. (I don’t know whether it is or isn’t true; I certainly don’t know enough about the situation in the UK to weigh in there.)
I’m not convinced capital is in a position to offer concessions in much of europe, given the crisis of capitalism; referring particularly to the plummeting global competetiveness of western economies, that puts us (those of us in the core) in a fundamentally novel political situation, just as you say in your second paragraph
distraction becomes a risk when concessions are a possibility, but I’m not convinced european capitalists are in a position to offer any – which is (potentially) why we see car factories being turned to military production, which is insulated from global markets in a way consumer goods production is not
So, on your view, the reason why voting for democratic socialists will fail is not because successful reforms will distract us (in the short-term), but because our present economic situation won’t allow such reforms to occur at all?
If this is true, then we are already at a historical crossroads. (I don’t know whether it is or isn’t true; I certainly don’t know enough about the situation in the UK to weigh in there.)
I’m not convinced capital is in a position to offer concessions in much of europe, given the crisis of capitalism; referring particularly to the plummeting global competetiveness of western economies, that puts us (those of us in the core) in a fundamentally novel political situation, just as you say in your second paragraph
distraction becomes a risk when concessions are a possibility, but I’m not convinced european capitalists are in a position to offer any – which is (potentially) why we see car factories being turned to military production, which is insulated from global markets in a way consumer goods production is not