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The “For the better”, also known as Anakin and Padme 4-Panel and Clueless Padme meme. The first panel shows a guy saying “You should vote dem and push them to be better.” The second panel shows another person saying “So you’re going to push them to be better after you vote?”. The third panel shows the first person saying nothing and staring. The last one shows the second person with a concerned look on her face saying “you’re going to push them to be better after you vote?”.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    United Fronts with liberals were a Stalin thing

    During WW2, certainly. And it worked out well enough, until FDR plotzed.

    And historically, united fronts were literally against workers interest

    United fronts that protect and preserve the lives and livelihoods of residents, accelerate the accumulation of industrial capacity, and generate the kind of economic surplus necessary to enter a socialist stage of economic development are fully within the interests of the working class as a body. But like any large scale public policy, there are winners and losers. It is very easy for a bourgeois media to portray a subset of working people - coal miners during a green revolution, insurance sales reps looking down the barrel of unemployment on the eve of a single payer health care plan, fascist state bureaucrats in the wake of a socialist revolution - as victims of an oppressive left-liberal reform policy.

    just look at Mussolini’s Italy

    M: Son of the Century does a great job of breaking down Mussolini’s rise to power. And it was the direct result of large swaths of ex-military and special forces divisions being galvanized by private incendiary media platforms bankrolled by bourgeois class interests. This wasn’t Giacomo Matteotti playing too nicely with liberals. If anything, the socialists’ failure of the 1920s was in not extending their revolution to the professional classes in opposition to the unchecked violence of the Nationalists.