• dastanktal@lemmy.ml
    12·
    10 days ago

    I have been advocating for this position on the politics community, on lemmy.world, and I’ve been getting flamed aggressively for it.

    To be fair, it took me a little while to find the best way to explain it and to find my footing, and I wasn’t exactly being nice. 😅

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      10 days ago

      Exactly, they act as a pressure relief valve for the system ensuring that public anger doesn’t boil over into meaningful action that threatens the ruling class in any way.

  • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    10 days ago

    Political change in the bourgeois system comes from the bourgeois response to the sentiment of the people. But the sentiment of the people is by and large dictated by the bourgeoisie. To successfully win reforms is to break this link and energize the people. But if you’ve energized the people enough to scare the bourgeoisie into reform, what do you need the reforms for? They exist only to placate.