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- Comment on [deleted] 10 minutes ago:
www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/…/what-itd.pdf
www.marxists.org/…/state-and-revolution.pdf
tldr build parallel power structures under the purview of a revolutionary socialist organization outside of the current bourgeois democracy. Strengthen them and grow them out as long as the bourgeois state allows, then in a moment of crisis seize state power to oversee a transition from capitalism to socialism.
- Comment on [deleted] 24 minutes ago:
Bernie is a Zionist and not a socialist at all. He sucks and if he was in a general election in 2028 I probably would still vote for the PSL candidate because I don’t live in a swing state. But he absolutely was screwed out of the 2020 nomination in a concerted effort from the Democratic Party establishment to get anyone but Bernie to win. Elizabeth Warren stayed in the race until Super Tuesday to act as a spoiler while all the other moderate candidates dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden. The media consistently downplayed Bernie’s early lead. Pete Buttigieg had shady connections to the owners of the app used to conduct the Iowa Caucus. That same Iowa Caucus held “votes” that were based on how loud the audience’s cheers for each candidate were. The media buried the Tara Reade story (CNN even took down an old episode of their radio show where Tara Reade’s mother called asking for help because her daughter had been assaulted by her boss who was a politician in DC).
- Comment on [deleted] 37 minutes ago:
Recognizing the reality of the situation, calling it out as a shit sandwich, and encouraging others to act in the way that reduces harm the most with an actual chance to succeed
Yeah I agree, more people gotta join Hamas
- Comment on [deleted] 41 minutes ago:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/…/hitler-comes-to-power
There are some misconceptions about how Hitler came to power. It is important to understand that:
Hitler did not seize power in a coup; and Hitler was not directly elected to power.
Rather, Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power through Germany’s legal political processes. According to the 1919 German constitution, the position of chancellor was appointed by the president.
Guess Germans should’ve voted harder then. Oh wait, there was a Communist Party who attempted a revolution before Hitler came to power and they failed because the Freikorps killed them? Well I wonder who started the Freikorps…
- Comment on [deleted] 43 minutes ago:
Yes, that’s right, and Kamala promised she wouldn’t change anything about what Biden was doing too (i.e. exactly the same thing).
I don’t understand why the gaudy Trump Gaza real estate deal is supposed to be a point in favor of Biden or Kamala, either. Would it be any better if after exterminating the same number of Palestinians, Kamala did a land acknowledgement in Gaza instead of building a Trump Tower? The reality is that if Israel is capable of seizing land in Gaza to build a riviera they’d do it regardless of which party is in power in Washington DC. Their strategy hasn’t changed at all since Jan 2025 when Trump stepped in.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 hour ago:
Oh I guess Dr German History decided to show up and teach us all a lesson about how voting against Hitler would have stopped Hitler. Because Hitler definitely got into power because he won a democratic election, right?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
She promised nothing with regards to Palestine. She said she would not be fundamentally different from Joe Biden in any way. Joe Biden always granted Israel unconditional and full support. There is nothing Israel asked for during the Biden administration that they didn’t get; and I don’t think there’s any reason to think a Harris administration would change on that end.
So why shouldn’t we believe that Kamala would kill just as many people as Trump? Because she isn’t an old decrepit white dude like the other 2 guys?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
Definitely the vibe OP was talking about,
What, as in being correct?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
Then you will need to be aware that by not voting for the more left candidate, we will have a far right government for a couple of cycles at least. This will cost lives and further entrench them into power.
And yet when the moderate liberal candidate wins and nothing changes, the lesson most regular people learn is that liberals suck and the left gets lumped in with that because this strategy of always ceding ground to the liberals makes the left indistinguishable from libs. It also results in the genocide in Gaza and similar things in the future as climate collapse advances and the contradictions get sharper. So why is there a duty for the left to neuter itself, associate with liberals who actively oppose the socialist agenda, and be complicit in genocide with our tiny amount of power?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
The reason what I’m saying is relevant is that for that strategy to work the left has to establish itself as a real political force first. Doing nothing but ceding ground in elections achieves the opposite. I’m saying that the Democrats currently have no reason to care about the left because there’s not enough leftists to swing an election, and for that to be the case the left has to do work on the ground first that can get people to agree to a radical leftist program distinct from liberalism.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
The Dems didn’t lose because leftists didn’t vote for them, there’s not a lot of leftists in the US anyway. They lost because Biden’s presidency failed to improve people’s material conditions since COVID and Kamala offered nothing better.
Ideally leftists could actually be organized enough that we could make concrete demands and withholding our votes would kill a candidate’s chances, but that’s not the reality except in some specific local contexts. In general this is a big reason why I think leftists in the US shouldn’t really bother with national elections (except as a way to advertise their orgs like PSL does) since they aren’t really achieving anything by putting energy somewhere that their enemies can outdo them with money.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
Why can’t you think further than electoral campaigns? Why not organize a trade or tenant’s union, reach out to a local community and get them organized, do volunteer work as part of a political organization (or even any random group or Church if necessary), do anything other than pitching all your hope into the Democratic Party when history and political theory show that you’ll just be coopted?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
WTF kind of organizing are you doing that the end goal is an election?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
Uh oh, getting too close to tankie logic!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
they constantly scrutinize others’ supposed moral purity and looking for skeletons in the closet.
Yeah just several hundred thousand dead Palestinians in Gaza, you know, a little skeleton in the closet. A tiny blemish. But all the adults in the room ought to just get over it and focus on what’s important: making America’s armed forces the most lethal army in the world, and student loan forgiveness for Pell Grant recipients who operated a business in an underserved neighborhood for 3 or more years.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
Ok tankie, in this house we only think in terms of the choices that our benevolent masters lay out for us. Criticism of the system itself is a bridge too far.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
Okay just gonna sweep Gaza under the rug in no time at all then.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
Not enough people, that’s why organizing on the ground is more important than electoral campaigns.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
One mayoral race in an extremely liberal city where the establishment candidate is a decrepit sex pest with a million scandals behind him is enough to make you forget the 2020 and 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, the lack of presidential primaries in 2024, and the way every single congressperson who does anything against Israel gets taken out by candidates that receive absurd donations from AIPAC? Oh I guess Mamdani won so the system works as intended…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
Thanks for voting to continue bombing them.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
I went vote for Claudia de la Cruz in 2024. Are y’all yonna find another group of people to genocide in 2028? Because I’ll stand in solidarity with them too.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
What a reddit response to a reasonable criticism of your garbage liberal meme.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
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Join an actual socialist org and stop trying to fix the Democratic Party, you’re only wasting your energy.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
It isn’t. That’s not the lesson at all. It’s supposed to show the difference between consequentialist moral codes and non-consequentialism. Ironically, consequentialism is already assumed to be correct when people post these memes.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
Dress it how you want, a vote for genocide is a vote for genocide.
An accurate picture here would have several hundred thousand Palestinians on both sides of the track. Not to mention it would still have trans people and immigrants on both sides of the track because both of those groups saw attacks on their rights under the Biden administration.
To make it abstract and intellectual like redditors like it: when the trolley problem has 3 people on the tracks and 1 on the other it seems like a no-brainer, but do you really think the same logic applies when there’s 500 people on one side and 498 on the other?
Also keep in mind, the actual political system is more complex that one election. If a candidate is completely blown out the party will know it has to switch its platform. If a candidate gets a decent number of votes then it doesn’t switch its platform. If you voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 you effectively let the Democrats know that genocide is negotiable and you are willing to let it slide. If you held your vote you exerted a bit of pressure for Democrats to stop supporting genocide.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
Why?