this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
295 points (96.2% liked)
Late Stage Capitalism
3510 readers
291 users here now
A place for for news, discussion, memes, and links criticizing capitalism and advancing viewpoints that challenge liberal capitalist ideology. That means any support for any liberal capitalist political party (like the Democrats) is strictly prohibited.
A zero-tolerance policy for bigotry of any kind. Failure to respect this will result in a ban.
RULES:
1 Understand the left starts at anti-capitalism.
2 No Trolling
3 No capitalist apologia, anti-socialism, or liberalism, liberalism is in direct conflict with the left. Support for capitalism or for the parties or ideologies that uphold it are not welcome or tolerated.
4 No imperialism, conservatism, reactionism or Zionism, lessor evil rhetoric. Dismissing 3rd party votes or 'wasted votes on 3rd party' is lessor evil rhetoric.
5 No bigotry, no racism, sexism, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or any type of prejudice.
6 Be civil in comments and no accusations of being a bot, 'paid by Putin,' Tankie, etc. This includes instance shaming.
Introduction to Socialism (external links)
Marxism-Leninism Study Guide: Basic Course
Marxism-Leninism Study Guide: Advanced Course
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Well its liberal infighting. DemSocs mild reformist approach is too much left for the centrists that unironically praised Reagan, so the DNC then fights the DSA harder than they fought Trump.
I get that from your perspective the DemSocs are mild reformists, but from the perspective of people who are in the center of liberal ideology, the DemSocs seem radical. It's all relative. To you they're all just liberals, and you don't make a strong distinction between them, but the two groups see themselves as strongly distinct from one another. And thus, to my original point, that's why in any other democracy each would have their own separate party, instead of having to fight each other for control of one of only two parties.
@TheDemonBuer Fully aware, but i was under the impression we are discussing it inside a radical left space?
Liberalism already dominate 80% of online non chud spaces and i want to not pretend that someone like nancy pelosi is on the left.
So yeah they themselves may see it that way but leftist do not.
Indeed. And since I'm not a radical leftist (even though, as we've already established, liberals would view me as such), I'll move along.
Leftists ain't going anywhere but in circles anyway, so I don't see the point of looking down your nose at people that are finally beginning to generate a bit of positive momentum.
There's not gonna be some grand workers revolution that disembowels capitalism. Capitalists won't give up without a fight, people won't want to pay that butcher's bill, and Communist states have historically not fared well under pressure from capitalist rivals. Unless some global natural disaster threatens modern civilization on a fundamental level, capitalism or something like it but worse (cyberpunk-style "corporations are basically the real nations" thing I guess?) is likely here to stay.
What do we gain by playing No True Scotsman with people who are pushing in the same general direction?
@grinning_serpent WE already did have plenty of SocDem Countries including Germany, where even the conservative party CDU pushed for it in 1949
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCsseldorfer/_Leits%C3%A4tze
Those policies will always get overturned eventually. Think ofthe New Deal in the USA only took till the 70's to undo it and reagan to implement the opposite.
Liberal policies cant work longterm its an historic fact.
Also stop coming to leftist spaces and berate us for not thinkign like you.