How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People: A Tactical Manual for Pragmatic Progressives by John K. Wilson

Author:John K. Wilson [Wilson, John K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Politics
ISBN: 9780814793633
Google: G8A26u2Q7s0C
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Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2000-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Revolution versus Reform

The left often finds itself stuck in a debate between revolution and reform. To self-described revolutionaries, any attempt to reform the system is a liberal compromise that only delays the creation of a socialist utopia.

The vision of workers casting off their chains and embracing the overthrow of capitalism is pure fantasy. No one actually knows what it means to overthrow capitalism, and it clearly isn’t going to happen, anyway.

Reforming American capitalism is not a halfhearted effort at modest change; it is a fundamental attack on the reigning ideology of “free market” capitalism. Progressive reforms, taken seriously, are revolutionary in every important sense.

Reforms such as the New Deal were truly revolutionary for their time, and American capitalism has been saved from its own flaws by these progressive reforms. The problem is that these progressive reforms have not been carried far enough, in part because the revolutionary left has too often failed to support the progressives’ reformist agenda. The only leftist revolution in America will come from an accumulation of progressive policies, and so the question of revolution versus reform is irrelevant.

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