Exactly: Things got worse slowly, then quickly. Why can’t they get better that way too?
They do.
Look at the rise of gay rights. It happened very slowly, then suddenly. Now most Republicans accept gay people’s existence.
The thing is, there’s never not something to progress on. We can always improve society. And the people trying to hold that back will always fight back. So it sometimes feels like we don’t make progress.
But we absolutely make progress. It isn’t always smooth, it isn’t always consistent, but lots of hard data shows human existence getting better. Millions fewer children died in 2024 than in 1984. A smaller percentage of humans starved to death. A smaller percentage of humans died of treatable diseases.
Don’t let despair take you. Keep fighting, and society marches on.
Because a lot of people do not share the same criteria for what counts as “getting better”.
The state apparatus making concessions to the working class while failing to restructure ownership over the means of production, essentially keeping them reliant to the system that is exploiting them and thus complacent to the demands of the owning class less they risk losing what little they have, is not what a leftist would call “progress”
Exactly: Things got worse slowly, then quickly. Why can’t they get better that way too?
They do.
Look at the rise of gay rights. It happened very slowly, then suddenly. Now most Republicans accept gay people’s existence.
The thing is, there’s never not something to progress on. We can always improve society. And the people trying to hold that back will always fight back. So it sometimes feels like we don’t make progress.
But we absolutely make progress. It isn’t always smooth, it isn’t always consistent, but lots of hard data shows human existence getting better. Millions fewer children died in 2024 than in 1984. A smaller percentage of humans starved to death. A smaller percentage of humans died of treatable diseases.
Don’t let despair take you. Keep fighting, and society marches on.
Because a lot of people do not share the same criteria for what counts as “getting better”.
The state apparatus making concessions to the working class while failing to restructure ownership over the means of production, essentially keeping them reliant to the system that is exploiting them and thus complacent to the demands of the owning class less they risk losing what little they have, is not what a leftist would call “progress”
A slave is still a slave even in a gilded cage.
Because nobody’s killing the bastards making them worse.
Edit: and they can’t/won’t be negotiated with.