GenZhou

934 readers

1 users here now

GenZhou is GenZedong without the shitposts

See this GitHub page for a collection of sources about socialism, imperialism, and other relevant topics.

We have a Matrix homeserver and a Matrix space (shared with GenZedong). See this thread for more information.

Rules:

This community is explicitly pro-AES (China, Cuba, the DPRK, Laos and Vietnam)
No ableism, racism, misogyny, transphobia, etc.
No pro-imperialists, liberals or electoralists
No dogmatism/idealism
For articles behind paywalls, try to include the text in the post
Mark all posts containing NSFW images as NSFW (including things like Nazi imagery)
Shitposts will be removed (please post them to /c/GenZedong or elsewhere instead)

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml

ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml

Is democratic socialism possible in the US? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by Thebeyond1@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzhou@lemmygrad.ml

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I went to shitty public schools and spend all my time reading about communism instead of US government. Anyway I got to thinking about how some liberals say communism isn’t possible in the US, but is democratic socialism even possible? Would a president like Bernie Sanders actually have the power to implement any progressive policies or would they just get blocked? It feels like no part of US government has any legitimacy any more other than the military because it makes the oligarchs money. So I find it hard to believe an old guy could just completely change our economy when trump wasn’t even able to build a wall.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The US has blocked social democrats from positions of power multiple times, not the least of which was the democratic national convention blocking sanders (an imperialist socdem in 2016), and henry wallace (an anti-imperialist socdem) in the 1930s. Both of these candidates were the most popular of the bunch, but the DNC is a private organization and can hand pick who it wants.

And you're right, even if a socdem was elected, they can't do anything: the US is a bourgeois democracy ( ie a capitalist dictatorship ), and capital controls and stands above the political system.

[–] Thebeyond1@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Right..liberals always point to FDR as the guy who was able to pass progressive policies, but he was kind of at the mercy of a strong working class and it was during a time when the US government had some power over capital. I guess that’s why all the main issues in the US are cultural and rarely affect us economically.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

And he was nearly couped for even such mild socdem program.