No.345034
i think it's kinda awesome how some politicians and economists who are thought of as western social liberals (like keynesians, many labour party members, etc.) used to be actual reformist socialists back in the post-ww2 change period. they would think of capitalism as simply a stage to reform their way out of into a socialist planned economy
this would be, of course, a thing very difficult to achieve due to the nature of the bourgeois state and the election system, and may well be impossible today in many imperial core countries, but it's still extremely bizarre to read about how radical social democratic parties could be back then, both due to the example of wartime economic planning showing its potential to the people, and the influence of the soviet union
i doubt we would see anything like this in the anglocracies and their direct proxies if china made a turn to the left, due to how rotten the political superstructure is in those countries, based on the example of how many crises they've faced and doubled down on their neoliberal ways without budging an inch to compromise with the working class