No we can't pressure this politician we say we want to push with our leverage what if that hurts their election chances. /s
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And then they proceed to get pushed to right.
FTfY.
Doing good things is a distraction from what's really important: getting that dang cheeto out of the white house!!
But progressives cannot appeal to suburban Republicans, who will most definitely vote for a Democrat this election, just like the Chuck Schumer strategy says they will.
well thankfully violent resistance got Mamdani elected
edit:
Since my sarcasm may not fully convert my sentiment, here’s a bit more…
There are too many calls for violence compared to the calls for solidarity. Violently subverting the dominant paradigm won’t accomplish anything unless there’s solidarity to shape the outcome on the other side.
And for all these cries for violence, I just don’t see any news about violent resistance—and especially not about effective violent resistance.
Even the claim that violence has been the only thing to stop fascism is dubious. Fascism is still here. It was kept in check until we collectively stopped fighting it in the realm of public option, thinking the work was all done.
Calling for revolution is not a call for random violence, but the creation of a revolutionary organization. Violence without organization is adventurism.
Secondly, fascism has not been "kept in check." Fascism happens when capitalism faces crisis, and blaming its rise on the working classes suddenly ceasing to fight it politically ignores why it rises to begin with.
This isn't a theoretical debate. We can just look at MAS in Bolivia to see what people mean by violent resistance. https://thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/the-bolivian-people-rise-up-and-say
People aren't talking about some random acts of violence here. What they're talking about is building a militant worker movement. And anybody who claims that worker movements stopping fascism is dubious is either deeply ignorant or a troll. Historically, this is the only way fascism has been stopped. Meanwhile, what voting gets you is Germany in 1930s where the social democrats famously aligned with the nazis against the communists.
Imagine believing Mamdani will do anything meaningful in a system built to oppress the proletariat. Fools like you would scream at Lenin, Mao, Castro, Kim Il Sung, and Ho Chi Minh for fighting for their existence instead of voting the invaders out.
fuck you mandami kept the far right police ministry, has already given in, has done nothing to stop ice from brutalzing new yorkers, has restarted homeless sweeps, condems resistance to what he says is a genocide, apologized for calling the nypd racist on and on. Stop champaigning less than half measures.