We need a balance between socialism and capitalism… i.e. social democracy

And whenever libertarians bring up something like a minimum wage hike being terrible, I frame it this way: if your business is so unproductive that you can't afford to pay your workers a living wage, we've got bigger problems than the minimum wage

I can't imagine it could get any worse than what we've got. lol. We are completely fucked. The economy is going to implode. And it's unclear whether the west will ever be class conscious and seize the means of production.

I rather have what we got then corporations running around with private armies.

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But user, atleast we have some sort of social welfare now. They want to cut that all off and no minimum wage. If that sounds "better" to you then idk what to say :(

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unless there is a major catastrophe, gradualism is the only way to go if you want to achieve communist utopia. hence, social democracy. small steps, but it's all we've got right now.

There will be plenty of major catastrophes in the next few decades as economic instability and climate-caused disasters force mass migration of poor people towards safer territory, while the current world powers go full reactionary police-state to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie and their muh privileged, decadent suburban lifestyles. No one is going to be batting for social democracy when the next famine or recession or civil war causes a few hundred million brown people to try to cross the border towards the West.
Reformism is like fighting an infected, gangrenous wound with band-aids and tweezers. The conditions for revolution will arise, and eventually people will realize it's a better idea to amputate instead.

You are correct. However, I still hope that what you've described won't happen for a while. Until then, socdem seems like a reasonable approach IMO.

Radicalization itself will be gradual, because it emerges trough small fights, which could become hard due to reactionaries' counter-attacks.

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