My common cause is with people trying to see to the needs of the people. If a social democrat walks that path, than he is “our own”. You’ll never get everyone to agree on the details but lets at least agree that the goal is feeding, clothing, housing, leisure, providing for people’s needs and that what sets us apart from people who care only for their own needs.
The problem with this formulation is that an agreement in ideals or values says nothing about an alignment in strategy. If one group thinks the only way to achieve its goal is to agitate, educate, and organize the people to the point that they’re capable of the complete overthrow of the status quo, while someone else thinks that the status quo can be reformed and made to serve the people, their strategies will actually be completely opposed to each other. That’s true regardless of the fact that both of them might be motivated by the same thing, and even the same goal.
My common cause is with people trying to see to the needs of the people. If a social democrat walks that path, than he is “our own”. You’ll never get everyone to agree on the details but lets at least agree that the goal is feeding, clothing, housing, leisure, providing for people’s needs and that what sets us apart from people who care only for their own needs.
The problem with this formulation is that an agreement in ideals or values says nothing about an alignment in strategy. If one group thinks the only way to achieve its goal is to agitate, educate, and organize the people to the point that they’re capable of the complete overthrow of the status quo, while someone else thinks that the status quo can be reformed and made to serve the people, their strategies will actually be completely opposed to each other. That’s true regardless of the fact that both of them might be motivated by the same thing, and even the same goal.
That is an extremely big “if”