"Progressives should not make the same mistake that Ernst Thälmann made in 1932. The leader of the German Communist Party, Thälmann saw mainstream liberals as his enemies, and so the center and left never joined forces against the Nazis. Thälmann famously said that ‘some Nazi trees must not be allowed to overshadow a forest’ of social democrats, whom he sneeringly called ‘social fascists.’

After Adolf Hitler gained power in 1933, Thälmann was arrested. He was shot on Hitler’s orders in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944."

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Marx didn’t live long enough to see just how ineffectual that line of thinking actually is.

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Is the US Socialist? Has Socialism been brought about by establishment parties anywhere in history?

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Yes. Look up ‘the New Deal.’

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FDR was a Social Democrat, not a Socialist.

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Nope, which is part of the problem.

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FDR has entered the chat.

Look up the New Deal.

Hell, look up the 1956 GOP Party platform.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/oct/28/facebook-posts/viral-meme-says-1956-republican-platform-was-prett/

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Yep, which is why Socialists answered the Reform or Revolution question in Marx’s time quite definitively. The answer is Revolution.

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Same capitalists trying the same failed tactics of voter suppression.

Every one of his perspectives of capitalism and it’s bourgeoisie governments still rings true.

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Rings true, isn’t true in actual practice.

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Sounds a lot like the Trumpers decide if something is true to me.

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Rings true in practice

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I don’t think “ineffectual” is the word you’re looking for there.

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