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The problem is that the democratic party, even if it becomes overwhelmed by this new wave of social democrats, will still fall for the same trappings reformist parties run into globally. Internal opposition from those who actually control the economy, the capitalist class. The media outrage is only one small part of it, there's also the very real fact that dominating production and distribution gives you power to control the state itself. Revolution isn't just a LARP, in order to truly take political power it needs to be siezed by force, and the commanding heights of the economy expropriated by force.
Take your reform bullshit to a different space. Reform does not work, liberal voters have tried for centuries here in the US and all it's produced are 2 right wing parties that are never held accountable.
The reason there are two deeply unpopular right wing parties is because capitalists control the state and the economy, and thus pick who the working classes can pick from.
Lol! Why do you still insist that these assumptions are valid, when recent events have already proved them wrong? Or are you just going to bury the truth under more layers of conspiratorial thinking, so you don't have to acknowledge it?
The majority chooses who runs the state. Capitalists have simply convinced you that they're the ones in charge of everything, and that there's nothing you can do about it. As long as you choose to believe them, then they are right.
The DNC derives its support and power from wealthy capitalist donors, and is entrenched in the imperialist organ of the US Empire. Legislation is not "word of God," the superstructure of society does not have power over the base. You can see just how little laws actually matter when it comes to holding those fulfilling the will of capitalists accountable. Both the DNC and GOP have violated national and international law blatantly and repeatedly, but with little to no actual impact.
Without political power, which stems from the base and the state in alignment, ie a monopoly on force, there is no progress. This is why revolution is necessary, not merely reforming and replacing a capitalist party with more radical elements.
Go back to Reddit you fucking loser
No idea what you're meaning at all, nor why you think I agree with you. Reform is a dead end, revolution is necessary. This seems to run to the polar opposite of what you're saying. No idea what you mean by me saying I "say words without understanding their meaning" nor how that's applicable here.
Revolution is the overthrow of the class that controls the state and the commanding heights of the economy by another class. Labor is inherent, labor-power is commodified labor. The working classes, through revolution, sieze control of the state and the commanding heights of industry, smashing the old capitalist state and replacing it with a proletarian one.
Revolution is the conquest of state power by a given class, legitimized through a monopoly on force and the commanding heights of the economy.