And now you're insulting me.

What I've been taught? Who the fuck do you think taught me all this theory and history? Ebil gommunist brainwashing school?

I fucking read and read and read. Off the top of my head: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I read A Dying Colonialism, I read The Wretched of the Earth, I read Black Reconstruction, I read A People's History of the United States, I read Shock Doctrine, I read Revolutionary Suicide, in fact I just read Empire of Borders and it really handily describes the global apartheid system our reforms rely on!

These are the basis for what I now understand about reformism within the imperial core. Reforms can only ever privilege a small segment of the working class above the workers in internal colonies and out in the periphery, they can not even help everyone under capitalism because then *where would capitalists get profits? Profit is theft, you can't reform your way out of that.

Instead, reforms like the New Deal were a way to bribe that special privileged segment of the workers into opposing revolution. That's it. They saw what happened in the USSR and it scared the shit out of them, so they bribed white workers into supporting capitalism and deputized them as enforcers. They can't bribe everyone with reforms, so they just bribe enough to act as enforcers.

And now that the empire is in decay they're running out of money to bribe us with. There are limits to growth, there is a tendency for the rate of profit to fall, you can't escape this.

We can fight for reforms! But they should be the basis for further revolutionary aims, not be the end goal in and of themselves.