Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 11:21:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: for a new world <satellitecrash-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Is social democracy counter-revolutionary?


Hello autopsy,
I agree with this position that social democracy is
more about preserving capitalism than smashing it (i
don't think social democrats are radicals they are
liberals), but I think we have to be very careful in
taking this position. For example the protests to like
higher-education cuts, education, housing, all the
social services I think are good, these cuts should be
opposed, and maybe even expansion of the state should
be supported in a few cases. I don't think it's
productive for us to take the position of the Colin
Powell's and George W. Bush's of the world, that
churches and volunteerism should provide the services
that the market and the state don't account for. But
at the same time I think we have to recognize there
are a lot of low income and oppressed ppl in the world
who's livelihoods should be improved now. At the same
time we should always be agitating and propagandizing
for communism and not reformism and also creating
strategy that will bring us beyond reformism...
in struggle,
-Sean

--- Michael Handelman <mhandelman1-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
> It seems to me, that social democracy is quite
> counter-revolutionary, as it transforms
> revolutionary
> workers demands into reformist ones, which capital
> can
> easily handle.
> 
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