• Dale
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    2611 months ago

    The U.S. won’t even let other countries vote for socialism, you think they’re gonna let it happen here?

  • @[email protected]
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    1911 months ago

    I like to see it as the preferable option to otherwise executing the ruling class. However, you can’t really argue with results.

    • @WaxedWookie
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      911 months ago

      Problem is that we can see the results of attempts at revolutionary communism - the failure to adequately flatten wealth inequality leads to the reconsolidation of wealth and political power into oligarchs that twist the political machine to their own interests, killing worker enfranchisement, and killing decommodification or making it a corrupt means of wealth extraction.

      I don’t have any good answers here - the status quo is apocalypticly broken, history shows the revolutionary alternate is almost certainly worse, and the democratic path forward doesn’t seem viable.

      Eating the rich in service of a democratic change may be the most effective solution - I’m open to ideas.

    • @banneryear1868
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      811 months ago

      There’s a lot of power in organized labor given the right conditions.

    • @ChicoSuave
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      511 months ago

      Gotta churn that 1% to get the old out often

  • Julian
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    311 months ago

    Active protest and similar methods of political change are not mutually exclusive to voting. Remember that politicians wouldn’t be working so hard to take away your rights to vote if it wasn’t at least somewhat effective.