Yes but this is literally also why "Dem-socs" exist -- the Sanders platform has always been pretty openly about "ensuring the basic level of social reproduction necessary for capital" -- 1/4 https://twitter.com/IsitZachorZack/status/1387848914703843328

Asking if progressives are "influencing" Biden is like asking if the vultures circling a corpse are influencing the coyotes circling the same corpse. Like, sure. But the reason they're both there is to feed on the rotting body. 2/4

This whole act of "no one predicted the return of the state, Biden is more progressive than the socialists" is appropriately embarrassing for dimwits who thought that ("neoliberal") capitalism meant less state and "socialism" was when state did more nice stuff 3/4

I mean goddamn we've literally had a century of guys named Paul Mattick telling you how dumb this is, do we need to spawn a third Mattick to repeat it for the *next* fifty fucking years? I'm serious though: we just grow them in these big artificial wombs in Uzbekistan 4/4