The debate here however is mostly not about achieving our goals by taking power in the capitalist parliament and government, or not. (Almost?) everyone agrees this is impossible. Or even about achieving modest reforms, most also see this as a dead end. The discussion is more about whether to use parliament as a stage to spread ideas from, something only very shortly mentioned by Pannekoek here.
About this, he seems to say:
- yes, when capitalism is firmly in charge
- no, when capitalism can actually be overthrown, because then you misdirect attentions and efforts
Any reasonable, concrete analysis of the situation in the netherlands, leads to the first conclusion. Capitalism is firmly in charge, under those conditions it can be good to use parliament as a stage to spread ideas.
Good article, thanks for
Good article, thanks for sharing.
The debate here however is mostly not about achieving our goals by taking power in the capitalist parliament and government, or not. (Almost?) everyone agrees this is impossible. Or even about achieving modest reforms, most also see this as a dead end. The discussion is more about whether to use parliament as a stage to spread ideas from, something only very shortly mentioned by Pannekoek here.
About this, he seems to say:
- yes, when capitalism is firmly in charge
- no, when capitalism can actually be overthrown, because then you misdirect attentions and efforts
Any reasonable, concrete analysis of the situation in the netherlands, leads to the first conclusion. Capitalism is firmly in charge, under those conditions it can be good to use parliament as a stage to spread ideas.