The insidious reformist mentality has stopped U.S. socialists from seriously challenging the Ukraine psyop
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Reformism is insidious because even when one is fully aware that the system they’re dealing with can’t be reformed, simply being a political actor provides one with massive material incentives to act like a reformist. To do what the system prefers, out of fear that if you’re too defiant then you’ll be cut off from access to the tools the system can give you. It’s a toxic relationship that these systems create with those who enter into them, while knowing change can’t truly come without getting rid of the system. Because the system is what they have to please in order to get what they need—or rather what they think they need—they end up fortifying the system.
The insidious reformist mentality has stopped U.S. socialists from seriously challenging the Ukraine psyop
The insidious reformist mentality has stopped…
The insidious reformist mentality has stopped U.S. socialists from seriously challenging the Ukraine psyop
Reformism is insidious because even when one is fully aware that the system they’re dealing with can’t be reformed, simply being a political actor provides one with massive material incentives to act like a reformist. To do what the system prefers, out of fear that if you’re too defiant then you’ll be cut off from access to the tools the system can give you. It’s a toxic relationship that these systems create with those who enter into them, while knowing change can’t truly come without getting rid of the system. Because the system is what they have to please in order to get what they need—or rather what they think they need—they end up fortifying the system.