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Why are the far right doing so well? And can it be stopped? (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Somehow "left unity" always means "stop voting to keep your human rights" and never "okay I guess I'll vote in support of your human rights too, you weirdo".

Why vote for the lowest common denominator when you can vote for united solidarity?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Most of the abolitionists weren't against slavery because they thought it was cruel and evil. They were against slavery because it made white people's labor less valuable.

    A lot of big slave owners would import a European artisan [blacksmith, carpenter, glazier, etc.] and pay them to work and to train slaves to do the job. When the craftsman went home, the slave master would hire out his laves at a fraction of what a free man would charge for the same work.

    Women in America only got the vote after they'd proved they could be relied on to go into the factories and take up the slack when the men went to war.

    Most progress doesn't come from noble asperations.

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    • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Exactly what the workers party has been saying for years.

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I think the key message is really great "the far right has an explanation for why your standard itf living is worse, and gets it to people". Centrist democrats fail on both. Even if they didn't want to point the finger at corporate oligarchs, they could say 'corrupt trumps and the ballroom republicans' over and over again

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