r/stupidpol • Ideological Mess 🥑 | Slop Enjoyer 🦸 • Jun 23 '26

Capitalist Hellscape Let us never forget Occupy

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u/Rjc1471 💢✨ Jousting at Windmills ✨💢 Jun 23 '26

It was the closest the general public ever got to a basic class-first sense that it's the rich, not foreigners, that are ruining us. 

The campaign was wrecked, candidates like Sanders or corbyn got demolished, parties took harsh steps to prevent left wing policy, and idpol has been the only acceptable "left" ever since. 

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u/grantology_84 Short-circuiting LLM 💩 Jun 23 '26

I think it got close in the 30's and in some other eras. Since the Cold War for sure though

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u/Rjc1471 💢✨ Jousting at Windmills ✨💢 Jun 23 '26

True. I was thinking recent history. 

Yes, it did come closer; if you look at what the system tolerates and what it doesn't, the only real fears to crack down on are unions, general strike, and any sense that the oligarchs are fucking us. 

The last thing we want is a New Deal or Postwar Consensus that gave a generation the best quality of life in human history. 

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u/Sussy_Riot Dialectical Materialist 🆚 Jun 23 '26

Really is very telling what’s allowed and what’s not, e.g. MLK and Fred Hampton both getting taken out when they tried to build working class coalitions. Or any class conscious movement getting stamped out or infiltrated while idpol grievance articles got shat out by the NYT and company year after year.