Comment on Why is there no true Progressive party in America right now?

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• 3volver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Communism is something different, that’s not what I’m asking about.

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  • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What are you referring to? Something less right wing than Liberalism, but not able to be considered left?

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    • 3volver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Progressivism, I wrote “Progressive” right in the title. I did not write “Communist” which is completely different.

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      • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What is progressivism then, and how is it legally distinct from what that law outlaws?

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  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People are downvoting you because capitalism is the biggest obstacle to progress.

    Is there anything in the PSL’s mission statement or program that you either disagree with or don’t consider progress?

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    • AAA@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The defense of the revolutionary government will be organized on the basis of the armed, organized working class. All foreign military bases will be closed immediately.

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      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That was explained earlier in the program:

        A state and government “of, by and for” the workers must replace the capitalist state. The foundation of any state power is repressive force—the military, police, prisons, courts and so on. The standing army and police must be disbanded and replaced by the armed people, organized in workers’ defense councils. A critical task of the new socialist order will be defending itself from the displaced capitalist class that would like to return to the days of exploitation. A workers’ government would create an entirely different type of court system, with its basic institutions determined by the democratic organs of workers’ power. Judges would not be required to be lawyers. All public officials, without exception, would be elected and subject to recall at any time by those who elected them.

        It’s certainly not self-justice. Mob-rule is just a term liberals use to justify anti-democratic mechanisms to protect their own power.

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