/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
News @lemmy.world Biden considering executive action to close southern border, sources say
World News @lemmy.ml Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them
News @lemmy.world ‘All men 16 years and above, raise your hands’: how al-Shifa raid unfolded
Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml A recent argument forced me to see that "genocide" has been turned into an imprecise word, and I don't know what to do about that?
World News @lemmy.ml Did Israel bomb a civilian evacuation route in Gaza? | Financial Times
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Firefox @lemmy.ml What the hell is this horror show shit that keeps showing up in Pocket?



While a specific party within bourgeois parliamentary democracy can be said to be a progressive historical force and enact quantitative changes, as long as they are forced into coalition with bourgeois parties then they are forced into a qualitative position of class collaboration. That's why parliament's composition matters, it's still a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
A revolutionary agenda determines whether they can turn a majority into qualitative change, but no matter how revolutionary their goals might be they still aren't actually in command at the moment - though that isn't to say that they need a majority to achieve a revolutionary agenda! They could seize power in some other way. What matters is who is actually in control, and at this point it isn't the socialist parties in control of the government or economy.