Do both. Mutual exclusivity precludes effective socialist organizing.

Fuchs (2020b) talks about ‘class struggle social democracy’. This aims to move to democratic socialism and involves: a pluralist convergence of radical reforms and the gradual transformation of institutions; trade union industrial action with working-class struggle (trade unions are another topic that could get more attention when discussing alternative societies and routes to them); new social combinations across classes and other divisions and identities; electoral parliamentary politics, social movements and movement parties; organization spontaneity and new prefigurative forms of social co-operation; the building of democratically controlled commons within as well as beyond capitalism; leadership and mass action; both conflict antagonistic politics and taking power. This includes different but complementary political strategies and rejects seeing these as contradictory or mutually exclusive. There are parallels here with what I am advocating in this book. I may not use the term ‘social democracy’ for this approach as that implies staying within capitalism, although in this context it refers to building from political reformism within capitalism to something beyond. Fuchs discusses thinkers as diverse as Rosa Luxemburg (2008), Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2017), and Bhaskar Sunkara (2019) as advocating change along these lines. Likewise, Eagleton (2022: 191), discussing a post-Corbyn Left in the UK, argues that the ‘the priority must be to grow this movement through every available channel’, numerous existing and thriving examples of which he gives.