The only reason we got any of those FDR reforms was to avoid a workers revolution. Roosevelt said it himself. The labor movement was brought to us by socialists and communists. It wasn’t moderates, it wasn’t capitalists, it wasn’t liberals. People saw what the Soviets were getting with unions, equal rights and the like and demanded we get the same. The new deal and the great society were simply to placate the white working class and reluctantly given. These things weren’t implemented by any sense of fairness and progression, they were implemented because the ruling class was afraid of what would happen if they didn’t, the revolution we really needed and still need today.
Socialism is the antidote to fascism, not moderate “regulated” capitalism. Those regulations don’t mean a goddamn thing when they can just be removed by the next capitalist administration that comes along. We’ve seen it for decades, they started chipping away at the new deal instantly after FDR passed with Taft-Hartley and it’s only gotten worse. These motherfuckers want to eliminate the safety net entirely.
There’s a reason the capitalists did everything in their power to end socialist systems including starting civil wars, rigging elections, assassinations, death squads, sanctions, embargoes and blockades. They couldn’t allow people to see how badly they were getting fucked under capitalism and that there was a better way. A way that didn’t include the exploitation of the many to enrich the few, a way that included everyone. Everyone except fascists.
Capitalism is the problem. You’ll never have an equitable society under this system. The reason fascism is able to take the hold it has is because there’s no offsetting Socialist system in any major country to keep it in check. They don’t have to pretend to care about us anymore. There’s no one to point to and say “hey, we want some of that!”
Liberals always sell out the left to the fascists in the end because protecting capital is more important than the People actually having the power. It’s why we’ll never get universal healthcare, education, housing and basic needs met. Everything has to be for profit under this system, there has to be infinite economic “growth”, the resources always have to be controlled by the rulers.
We should be 100% on the side of the anti-facsists because they’re the only ones currently willing to fight, really physically fight those bastards. That’s where this is heading, that’s where we should be right now.
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