First world social democracy has only been in decline since dissolution of USSR and rise of neoliberalism. The threat of socialist revolution kept capitalists from being too exploitative. It is unsustainable, capitalists will want their power back. Look at what happened to NHS in the U.K.
Also ‘freedoms’ for private enterprises and ‘rights’ for workers are straight up contradictory.
Exactly. Marx said “between equal rights, force decides.” We have a class dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. It doesn’t matter if your form of government is a so-called “multiparty liberal democracy” or a “parliamentary representative republic” when 95+% of the people who hold office are bourgeois and primarily make money through owning means of production or speculating on financial assets, rather than selling their labor power like everyone else. If the bourgeoisie guarantees rights for the worker, it is only because they have cynically calculated that it is in their long term interests to allow some crumbs to fall from their table. They will withdraw those “rights” as soon as they see fit. As soon as capitalism’s immune system detects a threat. You can only get so far with liberal democracy, trade unions, and worker-owned cooperatives, because, while those things are nice, and certainly better than feudalism, you still fundamentally have a bourgeois class-dictatorship where all the so called “rights” of the worker are granted by the bourgeoisie and enforced through their class’s monopoly on violence. They decide when rules can be bent, broken, changed, or ignored. The police and the military exist purely to enforce their ownership over the means and conditions of production.
First world social democracy has only been in decline since dissolution of USSR and rise of neoliberalism. The threat of socialist revolution kept capitalists from being too exploitative. It is unsustainable, capitalists will want their power back. Look at what happened to NHS in the U.K.
Also ‘freedoms’ for private enterprises and ‘rights’ for workers are straight up contradictory.
Exactly. Marx said “between equal rights, force decides.” We have a class dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. It doesn’t matter if your form of government is a so-called “multiparty liberal democracy” or a “parliamentary representative republic” when 95+% of the people who hold office are bourgeois and primarily make money through owning means of production or speculating on financial assets, rather than selling their labor power like everyone else. If the bourgeoisie guarantees rights for the worker, it is only because they have cynically calculated that it is in their long term interests to allow some crumbs to fall from their table. They will withdraw those “rights” as soon as they see fit. As soon as capitalism’s immune system detects a threat. You can only get so far with liberal democracy, trade unions, and worker-owned cooperatives, because, while those things are nice, and certainly better than feudalism, you still fundamentally have a bourgeois class-dictatorship where all the so called “rights” of the worker are granted by the bourgeoisie and enforced through their class’s monopoly on violence. They decide when rules can be bent, broken, changed, or ignored. The police and the military exist purely to enforce their ownership over the means and conditions of production.