• Cowbee [he/they]
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    1 month ago

    See, this is exactly what Marx was talking about when he said the decay of Capitalism would cause more radicalization and class awareness. What starts off as hard to see due to the vast competition of many competing Capitalits becomes increasingly apparent. Ideas are determined by material conditions.

    To answer your question, Social Democracies can help suppress revolution, but not prevent its necessity nor turn back the clock. Technological progress remains, and thus you can’t beat the Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall. In the modern world, Nordic countries are seeing sliding safety nets, and depend heavily on exploitation of the Global South via exporting Capital to have commoditied made with a lower price of labor (a process Marxists call Imperialism).

    Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution actually answers a lot of your question, if you’re willing to read a short book. It’s in section 4 of my “intro to Marxism” list so it will have terms you may not understand if you don’t read the buildup works, but you can still try to read it and see someone answer your very questions 124 years ago.