“Any social democrat, no matter their intentions, will always find it easier to move to the right than to the left. ON one side lie guarantees of stability from powerful interests, on the other capital strikes and stubborn resistance.”

—  Bhaskar Sunkara

Source: The Socialist Manifesto (2019), p.221

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