For decades, we have been in the streets in defense of the Palestinian people, and will continue to fight until the total liberation of Palestine!
For decades, we have been in the streets in defense of the Palestinian people, and will continue to fight until the total liberation of Palestine!
Electorally, yes.
The right wins if the Dems or Reps win.
The Dems are right-wing, increasingly so over time.
The electoral system is designed to prevent leftist change. Winning minor, local seats is not only ridiculously difficult, but upon gaining support the DNC and GOP collaborates against leftists, like what happened in GA and PA with PSL. Joining an org is so that leftists can build up dual power outsids the electoral system, revolution is the only way to avoid climate disaster and world war 3.
The same as when Democrats strip more worker protections, finish off Palestine, and make being in a union illegal to please their corporate masters. Encourage people to join leftist orgs like PSL, FRSO, and abandon the right-wing Democrats.
You supporting something certainly helps it happen.
Is there a line that the Dems could cross for you to abandon them? As the US gets more fascist due to Capitalist decay, which is accelerating, is there a jumping off point? Or will you stand in line with the US Empire the whole way?
Ah, there it is. You are just an accelerationist. Good luck with the revolution. Don’t be surprised when you get betrayed by the insiders who got more people to back them and end up against the wall like most leftist groups in popular revolutions.
I’ll waste more breath when you grow up a little and understand how the world works a bit more, lol. I’m sure more leftist infighting and crying online will help the cause until then!
You can’t respond to any of my points, so you project and call me an accelerationist for saying Capitalism is getting worse and we need to have a revolution. You can’t make this up, you declined to answer my question about a jumping off point from the Dems because that point doesn’t exist for you. Genocide is okay for you then, everything is justified except fighting back.
Yes, if I had to pick between the immediate safety of my friends and family over the safety of random strangers, I will pick my friends and family. Truly a shocking revelation!
I’ve answered the question of where my line is to another user.
And yes, wanting a revolution is accelerationist nonsense - look at history and tell me how many popular uprisings actually made life better and for how long. Most revolutions aren’t actually done by the “plucky group of militiamen,” they are done by government insiders who use leftists to get a W and then boot them out.
Cuba, Vietnam, China, USSR, hell even the dprk. Look at life expectancy, literacy, infant and maternal mortality, extreme poverty metrics, worker self management systems, and moving from dictatorship to soviet style proletarian democracy
All of these revolutions were lead by organizations that didn’t have government insider connections like that.
You are factually correct, but this is rhetorically a poor point to make unless your goal is to have the argument be an endless quagmire of tangents upon tangents (which I don’t think it is). Clearly you would generally know better than I, but I can’t help but feel that a simpler answer like:
“The liberal revolutions against feudalism broadly had a progressive character, though feudalists and conservatives generally portrayed them as barbarous, traitorous, heretical, etc. Socialist revolutions were likewise broadly progressive, with their rightward opponents portraying them the same way”
Would be a good way to touch on this point generally without just begging them so directly to vomit every red scare myth and reactionary reddit thread they’ve ever seen at you, or just leave because those things went through their mind and that was enough.
Good point, thanks for the criticism
So, yes, genocide is okay by you as long as it’s people overseas. Can’t say I agree.
Revolution isn’t accelerarionist, accelerationism is different.
Secondly, the vast majority of Leftist revolutions have dramatically improved metrics like life expectancy, home ownership, literacy rates, and more, this is just unfathomably wrong. Read Blackshirts and Reds, specifically the second chapter but I’d read from the start.
Yes, genocide is acceptable insofar as I know my actions won’t stop it, and I’m not gambling with the lives of people I care about over “maybe the revolution will stop it eventually” or whatever nonsense you believe will happen.
And no, I’m not reading a book about your claims. This is an internet argument lol
The bottom line remains this: calling every Dem supporter genocide lover and telling them how evil they are isn’t going to do shit for the cause besides piss people off and undermine thr message. The vast majority of discourse online is about how obnoxious you guys are lmao
As capitalism decays fascism becomes a certainty. I would suggest reading “The Economy and Class Structure of German Fascism” which offers a political-economic analysis from the perspective of a German who had access to the semi-internal communications of the capitalist class as capitalism was entering its fascist stage in Germany.
If you aren’t joining a socialist org that is moving toward the abolition of capitalism you’re lying down and accepting fascism will happen.
Stop pretending you don’t have any agency and go join an org.
You are gambling with their lives, the Dems continue to push right as Capitalism decays. You have no solution for this, just acceptance. Thinking revolution is nonsense is also ridiculous.
You made the claims, I offered a source thoroughly debunking them. If you think the Tsars, the fascist Batista regime, or the nationalist Kuomintang were better than the Communists in Russia, Cuba, and China, you have no clue what you’re talking about, nor how brutal previous conditions were.
You literally admitted to being fine with genocide, I don’t see how it gets more mask-off than that.
My point is that your entire premise of “don’t vote for the Democrats” while plotting a revolution is nonsensical.
If you think both need to be overthrown, why allow the much worse option for the climate and average person to get into power by withholding your vote? Does it not make more sense to pick the least damaging option available to you while plotting for long term goals? Are you okay with more people dying from the Republican party’s policies when you can actively stall/stop them?
And if you think I’m mask off or whatever platitudes you tell yourself for “being fine with genocide” go off I guess. Nuance never hasnt been the far left’s speciality (except when infighting).
You haven’t supported that point.
The Republicans are monstrously evil, but are no way “much worse” than the monstrously evil Democrats, because both serve their donors alone.
You said you were okay with genocide, said you refuse to read books, and never responded to my counters to your ridiculous claims supporting the Tsars, Batista regime, and Kuomintang over the Leftists.