wait, this is completely backwards, isn't it
if you believe in the need for the revolution, isn't that a belief that it's necessary because things can't possibly get better otherwise?
likewise, if you believe in incrementalism, doesn't that definitionally mean you think things will get better?
for clarification, why would you believe in an outright revolution unless it was a last resort in which good ends are impossible otherwise? isn't the whole point that it's potentially a mass death event carried out by the proletariat?
You don't see how saying anyone who won't support Biden wants fascism is a case of assuming that challenging the system must mean you want things to get worse?
I love this trick to create new definitions of things that fit my argument! “Actually boss, good job performance means never showing up to work, so you can’t fire me”
I do not love when people think they have access to the divine dictionary of objective meaning and anything other than that must be entirely disconnected from valid reality.
I think assuming that asking for better is a demand for perfection is a way to rationalise the idea that this is the best that things could possibly practically be.
Sorry, the parenthetical "so to speak" was meant to soften that part of the aphorism. That said, I think the issue's less about asking for more after some progress is made, and more about condemning that progress for not being enough.
I would go back to the original thing about the claim that an actual, tangible improvement is actually *bad* by getting in the way of a theoretical better improvement is very different from accepting that improvement and saying the work isn't done
It's also a stimulant that gives you a buzz every time you denigrate someone who is doing the work now, just not in the *exact* way you'd do the work if you actually did any work in the first place.
I don't necessarily disagree, but isn't this easily flipped? "The idea of incrementalism is a sedative that keeps you from doing revolutionary work" etc
Every successful revolution has been incrementalist. They have all been in service of moving towards a better imagined outcome, with some steps in between.
