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You can argue for electoralism without resorting to neoliberal "pragmatism."
It sounds like you're encountering actual leftism for the first time. I get that it's hard to understand perspectives that you don't have the foundation for- there are countless books about all this, and you're approaching it like it's a monolith that shares the same foundation that your perspective is built on but simply holds a different conclusion.
I feel like in order to help you understand, I'd have to explain all of leftism and philosophy: Reformist vs revolutionary approaches; pragmatism vs idealism; consequentialist vs virtue vs deontological ethics; electoralism; praxis... I think if you actually want to understand then you should first seek understanding of the foundations that these opinions/perspectives are built on.
Correct, and we don’t have that kind of time Gary.
So simply either join me in my attempt to help Americans get rid of their head pedophile. One step at a time.
You know who else doesn’t have time to read stacks of books: every american voter. They are under water, trying to survive. They don’t have to vote, it’s not compulsory. So focus on the task ahead.
I’m sure you’re a great philosopher and someone amazing to have deep conversations with over a cup of tea at a library, but here in the real world, we have a fledgeling democracy on the brink of collapse, and if we don’t try to hang on to saving it, I doubt we will even be able to have conversations on this very platform for much longer. They control a lot of what we take for granted and there are some really incredible people there (just as there are in palestine, china, russia, ukraine, and I suppose even in Israel)
In today’s america, for this election, I’d be very surprised if you are the single person who can find a pathway to do this without the dreaded pragmatism.
This is the main argument for vanguardism, and why I vote(d) PSL (there's PSL drama going on now)
I'm not a reformist. I don't believe that electoral pragmatism can get us out of this, and I'm not interested in putting in effort toward maintaining the status quo, as that's counter to my goals