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Socialist Progressives

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6. Traditionally this has been the case -

Reply to Helen Borg (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 09:38 AM

Sep 2015

even the Paris Commune (my favorite example) only lasted about 2 months because they were crushed by outside forces while they were busy voting.

Some socialists think the answer is that it has to be a worldwide effort. I'm not sure that is possible, especially given how nationalistic countries are currently.

It may be that the best we can get is a mixed system - at least at this point in time. Not ideal by any stretch but that is the reason some of us are supporting Bernie.