Bhaskar Sunkara
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first heard Dec 2022
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So revolution became a lot harder than people thought, especially in democratic countries where workers had certain outlets and certain powers and rights and responsibility.
You know, it's no surprise that
where you did have socialist revolutions, they were in places like the third world post-colonial states trying to emerge out of colonialism.
They were in places like China and Russia, autocratic countries, and never in an advanced capitalist country.
Now, in Marxist theory of history, even as interpreted by a lot of smart Marxists like G.A.
Cohen and others,
Um, there is a certain inevitability to socialism after capitalism.
The way that I would put it myself is I kind of have a more, I guess you could say like Kantian view of it.
Like I think socialism is something that ought to happen.
but it's not something that necessarily will happen and we'll need to organize and persuade.
And also potentially, again, the key part of any social system that's democratic is you have to allow for the possibility of a democratic revision to a different sort of system.
So I'd be more than happy in my vision of socialism for there to be capitalist parties, um,
Getting, you know, hopefully three, four or five percent of the vote, maybe a lot more in the same way that in the U.S.
or Republic, we could right now have a monarchist party.
No one's going to support a monarchist party in the in the U.S.
in serious numbers.
Although that's gaining popularity.
In the left-wing anarchist traditions, like anarcho-syndicalism or whatever else, their slogan is kind of no kings, no gods, no masters or whatever, so no bosses.
They definitely would not agree with that, but I'm...
Not familiar enough.
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