Nope. There were plenty of bourgeoisie in late 18th century France. I mean hell, you even had proto-socialists then (that's the Enrages). The "industrial" part of industrial capitalism wasn't a thing yet, but bankers, speculators and filthy rich merchants were very much a thing.
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I mean, rights in general only matter if enough fight for them. We're seeing this right now with the Fifth and First Amendments; none of this is unique to the Second.
Did you actually write all that? If so wow, I have to applaud your commitment to the bit.
I don't think it is, maybe we are due for another growth spurt but from here on out I genuinely think a critical mass has been achieved where it will simply make more and more sense for people to come here.
Maybe for English and a handful of major European languages, but there's no way I could recommend the Fediverse (at least the Threadverse; I don't hang out on Mastodon) to an Arabic or Japanese speaker. In that area it's still severely lacking.
Can you imagine all nurses and doctors striking for weeks on end, not caring for anyone?
I can, and in that case I'd want the government to crack down on the employers, not the workers. The other way around is slavery.
Yes, exactly. If it didn't work they wouldn't have tried to stop it.
I mean, historically black power and workers' rights movements used it to great effect.
By resisting the back-to-work order, each union member faced fines of up to $1,000 a day.
That is insanely fucked up. Like how the hell is something like this even on the books? Don't answer that.
Couldn't have been more obvious when she tried very hard to stop Trump from bombing Iran, Russia's weapons supplier and ally.
Yeah no that one is just sound policy. I mean, I guess it was weird for Tulsi to suddenly start pushing for sound policy, but "based on available intelligence we have nothing to convince us we should do this this is a bad fucking idea" is what she's supposed to he doing.
Good riddance.
No? The party apparatus and the party establishment are, in fact, different things. As long as the neolibs are the face of the party, and until they fuck off to the other side of the moon, they're the party establishment. They're the people who actually run policy and have clout with the electorate. DNC leadership can affect the composition of the establishment through its control of funding, but it's not the establishment.