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the bourgeoisie has been suppressed by Proletarian States, your hypothesis isn’t accurate
But there are priviliged positions of power within those states. It’s just another form to organize power. Those positions will not be available to everybody.
The idea of trying to synthesize a new ideology of left combined with right historically is Social Democracy,
That can’t be all.
As you write, it doesn’t work so something else should be tried.
You could name the main hurdle without becoming a tutor.
Of course there are reasons like no time from working two jobs or union busting behavior as seen from Starbucks or Amazon.
But that leaves enough workers who could run the union.
The main problem is convincing all minimum wage workers to join the union. Somebody has to come up with the necessary communication strategy. Whoever can do that most likely doesn’t work a minimum wage job.
Leftist analysis, which is correct.
Leftist analysis is not correct if the proletariat is stuck where it is.
Not all desires are valid
I would say, not all enactments of desires are acceptable, but invalidating desires by themselves sounds wrong to me. Who decides which desires are valid?
blaming government as the issue when really it’s the fault of Capitalism
Having a strong government to oppose Capitalism doesn’t help either. Capitalism is just one form of maintaining power. The people with capital will become the people at the top of the government if Capitalism is abolished by government.
Why not go full Hegel, treat left and right as thesis and antithesis and come up with something new?
A bit outdated, but Trump is indeed aiming at the consumer to hit the tarket of bringing back production to the USA.
https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterplan/
What doesn’t fit is that the elephant in the room, China, will still overtake the USA in the remaining technological areas with which the USA is maintaining its military lead.
Why is the USA isolating itself? Even if Europe plays along and stays on the side of the USA, how is that enough to maintain the global lead?
The context of Project 2025 suggests that this has been debated in depth by many think tanks. How are American billionaires going to succeed when the USA is retreating from the global trade that is creating prosperity for those who participate?
Warum hat die Bahn überhaupt einen Logistikkonzern aufgebaut? Warum kann die Bahn das erfolgreich managen, aber nicht ihr Kerngeschäft? Warum verkauft die Bahn jetzt, wenn es gerade das Sondervermögen für Infrastruktur gibt?
Das sieht für mich wie europäische Industriepolitik aus, von der nur das Ergebnis, nicht aber die Motivation in der Zeitung steht.
Wer trifft diese Entscheidungen und warum dann nicht ein BGE?
From the point of view of the right, the left government is maintaining overbearing zoning laws and medical regulations. These left politics retain the profits for the upper class in the current Capitalist system.
It’s the separation of the proletariat that uphelds Capitalism, not one side alone.
A unified proletariat doesn’t have to be left. Restricting analysis to dialectical materialism misses that people also care about other things. The left would already have convinced the entire proletariat if it’s only materialism.
It’s the arrogance of already knowing how to resolve social issues that keeps the left stuck in the past. The left is all about respecting people and their emotions and desires, but when they are expressed in the form of right-wing support, they are called reactionary and ignored.
Capitalism and fascism is not what the proletarian right wants.
The main differences are that the right accepts social, class differences while the left wants socialized support and unity. On the other hand the left wants individual personal differences while the right wants uniform values.
It’s not about gaining things from the right but overcoming differences. There doesn’t have to be left and right. Then both sides can change society together and make a better world instead of fighting each other for the benefit of the upper class.