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In your heart of hearts, you know this wrong (tdunlop.substack.com)

submitted 7 months ago by HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net to c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone

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It is easy for such operatives to point to the experience of the Whitlam Government or even the 2019 election under Bill Shorten as evidence that “big picture” stuff doesn’t work and that you have to ease your way into reform.

But ffs, it doesn’t work. None of that works. Not really. Not Ultimately. Not if your goal is a genuinely more equal society in which people’s most pressing needs are met. Not if your aim is to create a world in which we can be something more than inputs into an economic system. Even the modest goal of 8 hours work, 8 hours recreation, 8 hours rest seems wildly utopian in this new dispensation, and it shouldn’t be that way.

I disagree with none of this. Everyone sooths read it in full.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 7 months ago

His incrementalist approach has been wrong from the start and was always going to fail. The only thing that has saved him thus far has been the collapse of the non-Labor side of politics, but instead of taking advantage of that and staking out a genuine progressive alternative, he has left himself—and the broader left—exposed.

That was the part that really stood out to me. Some really great writing there, thanks for sharing.

I do wish it wasn't on the Nazi blogging platform, though.