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In reply to the discussion: "Incremental change" is a Third Way lie. [View all]F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)In what world do you live in? What change we have been able to make over the last 200 years has been almost entirely through generally unpopular radical left-wing social uprisings, and that change has come not through many small steps, but many individual steps that add up to very rapidly paced change that is realized for an arbitrarily long time depending on the resistance of the state and capital owners and the severity of the change. Those changes then seem incremental because they are constantly being rolled back by an actively resisting elite and its economic and political arms.
Since I don't feel like summarizing 200 years of radical labor and working class history at the moment, I won't. Maybe I'll do so in a future post--I'll let you know if I do, and we can have a fun debate about it there
(A genuinely friendly challenge, more so than an attack, btw. I think it could be productive, and it'd give me an opportunity to reread all of my labor history again.)