As you well know, the entire project of New Deal liberalism was intentionally constructed on the backs of black people, and they suffered accordingly. I can’t speak for every social democrat, but I can’t imagine that‘s what even the most moderate, Nordic Model social democrats had in mind.

Professor, while I appreciate the sentiment in calling for a better mass party, social democracy proper—that of Eduard Bernstein and the like—was not only a socially progressive force, but a somewhat internationalist one. New Deal liberalism, even of the “militant” variety, was certainly neither.

Once you understand that a) luck is real, that b) some people just have a lot of it, and that c) no one’s luck is infinite, anything you struggled to explain using socioeconomics and psychoanalysis becomes stunningly straightforward.

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