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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21396569

Moira Donegan
Mon 14 Oct 2024 06.07 EDT

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[-] Zexks@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The other candidate will put you in prison for that wrong think and send EVEN MORE aid.

Or straight up fucking kill you: https://feddit.uk/post/18652620

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago

You should not support Hitler just because you think Goebbels is worse. You should work against both genociders, not be an advocate for one.

[-] banshee@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

We need STAR instead of FPTP so everyone can vote their conscience.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Bourgeois democracy is incapable of substantially opposing capitalism, the capitalists will just pull a capital strike and hire thugs and PR people etc etc. Countries that voted in socialists found themselves, and particularly their left parties, under terrorist attacks and faced coups. Some outright banned anticapitalist parties. If you do not organize and arm yourselves, you will simply get murdered en masse.

But if alternative voting systems inspire you, I do encourage you to get involved IRL in organizing efforts. This will teach you a subset of organizing skills that are more widely applicable. You will get to see the patterns of your opponents, too. Of our opponents.

But I also recommend reading widely and critically, to challenge yourself with the material histories of left organizing and, even more importantly, its failures. Who fought us. Who won. What is GLADIO. Who is Suharto. What happened to Allende and why. What happened to the pan-Africanists, the pan-Arabs. Why is the US left so anemic? Why are the European "communist" parties so liberal? Etc etc.

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