It’s been necessary for decades… But revolution is a bloody nightmare that lays the groundwork for rebuilding. You are still going to need a government after the revolution and I’m yet to see any actual tangible plan for what that is that somehow precludes voting right now… It’s literally a form you fill out once or twice every four years.
At the risk of painting with too broad a brush, does this rhetoric not means that a lot of leftists have got one foot in the past looking at historic revolutions and one foot in the future dreaming of a revolution to come? And what do you think that means they’re doing to the present?
Revolution isn’t a thing you do, it’s something you organize for and prepare for when crisis turns to revolution. That’s the primary focus of leftist action, not voting. Voting vs. organizing for revolution is kinda like building a sand castle vs. testing and studying rocketry if your goal is to get to the moon. Sand castles aren’t really hurting anything, but they aren’t helping either, so it’s more important to actually work on what matters.
No, and this is where the metaphor falls apart, because a revolution needs to be a mass movement. Not a coup. To put so much focus on voting is a privledge reserved for those not actively crushed by the system, at home or abroad.
Thing is, if you decline those things, those people will still be crushed and starving, and you’ll just have an empty stomach yourself and a slightly more shit government.
And if people say that the only way to get to the moon is building a giant sandcastle, and refuse to help building the rocket, then that makes it that much harder to put food on everyone’s table, not just those not yet crushed.
Who in this debate is arguing for voting instead of leftist action?
I mean to say I really don’t get why filling out that ballot once or twice every four years precludes leftist action altogether. It’s really not one or the other.
Nobody is making that argument either. The point is that liberals see the system as fundamentally reformable, and this is incorrect. This is a real group of people that believes lesser evil voting will somehow result in an eventually good system, that capitalism just needs to be reformed from within.
The point is that revolution is necessary, and electoralism is a dead end.
It’s been necessary for decades… But revolution is a bloody nightmare that lays the groundwork for rebuilding. You are still going to need a government after the revolution and I’m yet to see any actual tangible plan for what that is that somehow precludes voting right now… It’s literally a form you fill out once or twice every four years.
At the risk of painting with too broad a brush, does this rhetoric not means that a lot of leftists have got one foot in the past looking at historic revolutions and one foot in the future dreaming of a revolution to come? And what do you think that means they’re doing to the present?
Revolution isn’t a thing you do, it’s something you organize for and prepare for when crisis turns to revolution. That’s the primary focus of leftist action, not voting. Voting vs. organizing for revolution is kinda like building a sand castle vs. testing and studying rocketry if your goal is to get to the moon. Sand castles aren’t really hurting anything, but they aren’t helping either, so it’s more important to actually work on what matters.
Right, so where’s the damn rocket, then?
Accusing people of wasting time voting is a privilege reserved for those who aren’t affected by election outcomes… But people are in fact dead.
Most of the people building those sandcastles you’re so quick to trivialise will not in fact have seats on the Rocket.
No, and this is where the metaphor falls apart, because a revolution needs to be a mass movement. Not a coup. To put so much focus on voting is a privledge reserved for those not actively crushed by the system, at home or abroad.
You’re right, it is a privilege…
So is having food on the table.
Thing is, if you decline those things, those people will still be crushed and starving, and you’ll just have an empty stomach yourself and a slightly more shit government.
And if people say that the only way to get to the moon is building a giant sandcastle, and refuse to help building the rocket, then that makes it that much harder to put food on everyone’s table, not just those not yet crushed.
Who in this debate is arguing for voting instead of leftist action?
I mean to say I really don’t get why filling out that ballot once or twice every four years precludes leftist action altogether. It’s really not one or the other.
Nobody is making that argument either. The point is that liberals see the system as fundamentally reformable, and this is incorrect. This is a real group of people that believes lesser evil voting will somehow result in an eventually good system, that capitalism just needs to be reformed from within.