I'm wondering when the rest of you guys are going to realize that electoralism is a huge waste of time, effort and energy. Elections are a distraction to make us think we can effect change through the system. But the problem IS the system. There is only one way forward, and it's through a revolution that abolishes the entire existing structures of power.

We need to accept this reality, so we can actually start the long process of how to achieve that.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Spineless liberals cant even hold the line much more than one month, in any collation they are the weakest link

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (60 children)

Going by the recent bullshit in today's senate, they are right-lite

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days ago

Charles Schumer makes policy decisions based on an imaginary Republican family.

Democrats have been basically Republicans since the Clinton administration.

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[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

I'm going to take this opportunity to link this video by Richard Medhurst

This is not infighting, this is the great Un-Masking

I will also take this oppotunity to link this video about Why Leftist Purity Tests are good.

Never stop Purity Testing, Comrades, Never.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't even call it purity testing, they're just testing. I've seen obsession over purity taken to a counterproductive extent, and I maintain that it can be a problem when dealing with a complex unideal reality, but what BadEmpanada is talking about here is fine. That's a healthy level of testing, and important in preventing recuperation or sanewashing. Democrats are a bourgeois-controlled party and don't share our class interests.

To give an example of the kind that is counterproductive, I know of a (small) socialist organisation in my country which has been banned from worker strikes after counterprotesting one, insisting that since industrial unions are bureaucratic, the workers should all just boycott the strike and make their own union. This group claims all other socialist organisations are impure and pseudo-leftist whenever they compromise with material reality and present conditions.

And, obviously, that's a whole other world of purity testing to what you're talking about. The problems are when it reaches no-true-Scotsman levels.

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago

I get what you're saying, regardless; never stop the tests.

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