How will social transformation occur?

Reforms are one thing. Reforms are achievable and they are always welcome.

Social transformation is something else. It’s badly needed at this point in history, but it’s hard to achieve.

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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/bernie-sanders-build-back-better-sinema-manchin

“Bernie and Progressive Dems Can’t Succeed Without Mobilizing Their Supporters”

Mass mobilization . . .

What’s really striking, if you think about it for a while, is how this doesn’t happen anymore.

It used to happen. In the days of Eugene Debs (Bernie’s hero). In the days of the building of the CIO.

And Bernie said he was going to do it.

And Ralph Nader (in 2000) said he was going to do it.

Occupy Wall Street said they were going to do it.

Etc.

After 2016 Bernie established Our Revolution. It amounted to nothing. Why?

Because the great attempts to transform society in that way failed. The French Revolution. The Russian Revolution. The worldwide socialist movement circa 1850–1950. In their wake there is no longer effective hope that that paradigm of transformative social change can be successful.

That recognition corresponds to reality. Transformation will, instead, be a gradual “greening” process.