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In reply to the discussion: Social Justice is the ONLY Path to Economic Prosperity for Workers in This Country [View all]socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)As Marx and Engels showed, the political, the economic, AND the social are all together under capitalism to oppress. The problem with a lot of folks is in trying to separate them. The failures of social movements to change the BASICS of capitalist society (oppression) is because the social movements ignore the economic component.
Of course the reverse is true. Karl Kautsky was one who thought that labor through unions could lead to way to a peaceful transition to socialism by empowering workers to unionize and wrest reforms from the capitalists. He was ignoring the social and the political component. Only Marxism as envisaged by V.I. Lenin put all of the pieces together. The fact that Leninism was subverted later on by Joe Stalin and became only a shadow of it's former self does not change the original conceptions and breakthroughs of Leninism.
They are all of a piece and they all have to be tackled together.