I fled Reddit due to the authoritarian mod craziness, but Lemmy.world seems infested with too much Communist craziness. I’m leftist, but communism is idiocy. Is there an instance that leans more democratic socialist but refrains from going off the deep end?
Isn’t communism based on revolution though? (PS. It’s not I who downvoted you, quite childish I think to do so).
Revolution can come in many forms taxing the rich, siding with the workers in court, ending the exploitative businesses practices, starting up more crown corporations, making all elections completely publicly funded, legislating a path for businesses to be owned by the workers while using the independent courts to facilitate this, directing the transfer of wealth to the everyday people, increasing the funding for CBC.
I love everything you say (I don’t know what CBC is though) but the communist revolution is not that, it’s a bloodbath where workers take the power. Does it have to be a bloodbath? It seems so in a communist uprising because the power in place will not budge otherwise.
So I’m much more on your line, but without calling it the name communism.
She’s talking about reformism as though it is revolution, and is using revolution as a term for “system change.” I won’t say that’s linguistically wrong, but among Marxists that strategy is called reformism, and is generally seen as strategically futile by Marxists since Marx himself. Revolution, in the Marxian strain, looks like the Paris Commune, Russian Revolution, Cuban, Vietnamese, Chinese, etc. as all of the strategies she is espousing are seen as impossible to actually do with the present level of power workers have within the system.
If Marxists believed the system could be reformed, they would be first in line, but in the overwhelming majority of countries where Capitalists have power, this is impossible. A notable exception is countries under the thumb of Imperialism, who usually can band together against Imperialism and form a coalition, though usually revolution is seen as necessary following breaking free (as the CPC and the KMT in China aligned against Japanese colonialism and then fought a revolutionary war against each other).