I’m watching the DNC, and it’s made me even more aware of the power of liberal bourgeois democracies to let out a little revolutionary energy whenever it gets close to the edge, through concessional policies, like New Deal policies or whatever Kamala might do if she wins, or even the act of voting and campaigning itself. Do they have to go through a fascism phase first, or has there been a liberal bourgeois democracy that has successfully had a socialist revolution? Will it take new theory to figure it out?
I mean, although it wasn’t by voting, technically, the USSR was birthed out of the destruction of the provisional, nominally liberal gov’t of Russia, led by Kerensky…
Totally forgot about that. Although in my defense, I’m still getting to that point in the Revolutions podcast (the Tsar just stepped down) and I definitely need to do more reading on that period since I heard the podcast will probably start getting pretty lib soon. I was predicting that it was going to be a more nominally socialist democratic government than liberal democracy because Kerensky was an SR and I was predicting the Bolsheviks were going to take it over from the SR’s or Mensheviks or something, but like I said, haven’t reached that part yet and haven’t done enough reading on the period yet lol.