“the role of socialists is to raise people’s expectations, not manage them”https://bronx-tales.com/2021/12/07/positively-public/ …
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That is - if we set aside the debate over existing public housing for a moment - I don’t think it’s “managing expectations” to say that public housing expansion probably won’t happen through sec 9.
Last tweet: in many other cities in the US, ppl who consider themselves to live in public housing live in something that is funded through PBS8 - to win public housing at scale across the country as Glyn describes we need structures that create meaningful solidarity w them
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i don’t disagree with this, necessarily. but i think that one thing this essay really gets at is that our role as socialists is not to accept compromises, it’s to create the conditions under which we don’t have to
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and one thing i’ve observed in this debate is the sense that “there is not alternative” to either RAD or the Blueprint, or to the Blueprint as the only alternative to RAD - and THAT’s “managing expectations”
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