Friday, January 27, 2023

Democratic socialism has nothing to do with hatred of the police or animus toward the privileged class

As a long time independent democratic socialist I can only agree with the Marxist view of THE POLICE and the role of THE STATE in our capitalist system. To be sure , there are GOOD cops and BAD cops as in any other profession. I can understand this jury verdict on the Pawtucket police officer in the context of the last few years of anarchist street violence , a rising crime rate, a climate of FEAR among the " respectable " middle class. It would seem that CIVILIZATION itself is protected by that " thin blue line ". But this is a superficial view which ignores the inherent social injustice of an economic system based on the barely disguised exploitation and oppression of the working class majority. Hot heads over-vilify the police falsely accusing them of WHITE SUPREMACY . The main job of the cop - good or bad- is the protection of capitalist private property . Only a clear MAJORITY of the population can decide to nullify PRIVATE PROPERTY rights- without reducing anybody to destitution , misery and social humiliation. Knowing that the vast majority of the population in capitalist USA have been effectively deprived of significant PRIVATE PROPERTY gives democratic socialists a spirit of OPTIMISM in promoting their ideology which is indeed based on SCIENTIFIC reasoning. This has nothing to do with hatred of the police or animus toward the privileged class. It has everything do do with finally establishing a RATIONAL social order.

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