Mexico’s 120 million citizens will begin to enjoy free, universal access to healthcare from next year, following a decree by socialist president Claudia Sheinbaum.
    • DiaMatEnjoyer@lemmygrad.ml
      24·
      2 months ago

      Neoliberalism is so extremely pro capital, we forgot what a majority ruling social democratic party can look like

  • Maeve @lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    2 months ago

    Oh, but she hasn’t solved every other big issue facing Mexico, don’t be fooled! Literal reply I got from celebrating this win on the main Nazi instance. 🙄

  • Everyn@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    2 months ago

    As much as i have my criticism for social democrats, id take living in a social democracy over neoliberal hellhole anyday

    • burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      2 months ago

      The failure of social democracy is about abandoning the maximalist goals and focusing only on immediate changes. This leads to some petty bourgeois tendencies of abandoning mass action in favor of parliamentary politics and abandoning propaganda and agitation towards revolution in favor of focusing only in the next electoral cycle.

      However, we who yearn for revolution must never abandon immediate reforms and policies that benefit the working class. This is one of the ways of gathering strength. We should use the momentum of reforms to build our forces.

      This is why sometimes I am baffled with some comrades that disregard bourgeois elections entirely. Like it or not, a lot of attention of the workers is given to the bourgeois electoral process, and not only that, parliament has the actual ability to enact policies that will immediately affect workers’ lives.

      • Everyn@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        2 months ago

        social democracy could also be used to strengthen the revolution in a way, similar to how lenin advocated for using bourgeoisie elections to show the working class that the current system is fixed against them, we could use social democracy to show that under capitalism all those benefits are temporary, and that to have them permanently a socialist system must be established

        • burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml
          1·
          2 months ago

          It’s not even about using social democracy to show it won’t work. We can already do this with propaganda. Engaging in bourgeois elections is a tactic, along with other tactics such as mass action, propaganda and agitation, strikes, (some tactics that shouldn’t be discussed directly in a public forum) etc. The important thing is not to lose sight of the strategic objectives.

          When we say that revolutions won’t happen through parliamentary reforms, is because we have enough examples from history where the bourgeois system was able to engage in lawfare, disinformation campaigns, coup d’etats, or making socialist/communist parties illegal whenever they feel threatened. And we also have examples where some of members of the party elected or nominated to bourgeois positions who ended up betraying the revolutionary goals in order to secure their positions in bourgeois government, a phenomenon which, back in the day, was called opportunism. So we need to be aware that this tactic has its limits. A socialist/communist party can’t rely solely on bourgeois parliamentarism/electoral politics.

          Not to mention that there are synergies. We can use a reform for then promoting mass action. We can pass laws that make organizing easier. We can use the state machine to get full time revolutionaries to do propaganda work. We can use the state machine to put militants in key positions, as well as removing reactionaries from them. We can use the Parliament to stall any reactionary policies. We can use elections to carry out mass propaganda. And we can react to a coup and then have enough legitimacy to have our own revolutionary groups to take more direct action…

          So, in summary, it’s important to use bourgeois elections and parliamentarism, it’s important to synergize it with other tactics, but it’s also very important to be aware of its limits.

    • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Affordable housing & food, universal healthcare, job security, and no fascists trying to outright exterminate me?

      I mean, yeah, I can’t say I don’t understand why people wouldn’t prefer that to neoliberalism. More people like Mamdani running this country would objectively be a good thing for the average person. Doesn’t mean I’m going to polish his boots with my tongue, though. Socialism is the only permanent solution.

      But man to be able to just live and enjoy life would be super fucking nice…