By passing through a channel, you’re following its path, not clearing a new way. Flowing water can never undo the erosion. That means that while being used the channel is still in the process of being created and recreated.
Social democracies tried to use the circuits of dominating power but failed to get out of the channels of domination. They showed that within the paradigm of pre-existing power, you end up dominating, not liberating.
You don’t create something after inheriting it since it already existed before you came in contact with it. We’ve inherited the vision of socialism not the theory of socialism. State socialism is a confusion of those things, in the same way that the dictatorship of the proletariat mistakes an ongoing theoretical process for ideological truths. It’s another misguided attempt to use the same existing channels of power to accomplish new ends.
