>>18517030
Race is more of a class than class is. You have much more in common with a rich businessman who's the same race as you than you do with an immigrant who's not your race and who just happens to earn a wage just like you.

>>18517159
I'd rather be compared to a negroe than a rootless child raping moneychanger.

>>18517030
Maybe, but every "revolution" just ends up creating a new hierarchy anyway.

Reforms won through collective struggle that build working-class power are generally progressive. Reforms handed down from above to pacify workers can be demobilizing. The difference lies in the process and political consciousness accompanying the change.

>>18517030
almost by definition, yes.
The momentum for the revolution builds on the desperation of the workers. the better their conditions, the lesser the will to destroy the system. better conditions may however improve the means of the workers to make a revolution successful.
So the sweetspot would be reforms/improvements that give the workers more resources without somehow making them less discontent.
However, that is only if you subscribe to the ideology that revolution is necessary, which communists generally do. unlike democratic socialists who believe in progress through reform.

>>18517847
>democratic socialists who believe in progress through reform
Seriously, hat even is the difference between democratic socialism and social democracy? Other than that demsocs don't want to be associated with lame and impotent socdem parties.

>>18517867
there is no pure definition of difference, I believe the terms are used mostly interchangeably depending on taste and audience.
I used to be a member of a (european) social democratic party and I always identified myself as a social democrat and pushing social democracy, but plenty of others talked about themselves in the other terms. I believe it is mostly about how comfortable you are with the term socialism.

>>18517824
Arguable