Not that I particularly value your slander one way or the other, but opening your comment with the insinuation that I am not of the working class and am out of touch with it simply because I disagree with you is baseless character assassination. It brings nothing to the table but the temporary satisfaction of insult, it doesn’t make your point any better aesthetically or logically. If your goal with this comment is to build a bridge, you don’t start doing so by setting the wood on fire.
Either way, I am certainly sorry to hear about your niece. However, any idea that the DNC somehow wouldn’t be just as willing to gut safety nets is wrong. You’re attributing the results of a system meant to represent the Capitalist class to the individual whims of party members, but that’s not the material basis for the state. The State is run by Capitalists, the parties are their limbs and hands.
The basis of the DNC and GOP is in corporate donors, and the revolving door with various industries tied to the US Government. Harris ran an even more right-wing campaign than Biden, why? Why did Trump win 2024? Why do elections go the way they go? Because as workers, the decision is not given to us, the system is pre-selected and gerrymandered precisely so that the will of Capital is always upheld.
The path forward is and always has been revolution. The admission that you mostly just cast your vote and occasionally protest while conditions necessarily decline alongside Capitalism is just kicking the can down the road while the damage gets worse. I can recommend theory if you want, or recommend orgs to join like PSL, but if you stubbornly assert that your only genuine political action can be within the context of the electoral system and you insist on putting all of the blame on the GOP rather than the system at large, you’re going to be watching as conditions get worse for you and your family no matter which party is in power.
All my local PSL does is go to protests and post gofundmes.
Seems a lot like the type of lackluster activism you accused me of
Sure the parent organization has a better message, but they seem generally ineffective. But I guess that’s what the system is designed to do. No real change can occur without revolt. And that will be suppressed with extreme violence.
PSL does work behind the scenes with respect to labor organizing and whatnot, plus what they can actually do is impacted by how many members they have. If you feel they aren’t doing much, you can ask them directly why that is or if there’s more they are doing you don’t know about.
Not that I particularly value your slander one way or the other, but opening your comment with the insinuation that I am not of the working class and am out of touch with it simply because I disagree with you is baseless character assassination. It brings nothing to the table but the temporary satisfaction of insult, it doesn’t make your point any better aesthetically or logically. If your goal with this comment is to build a bridge, you don’t start doing so by setting the wood on fire.
Either way, I am certainly sorry to hear about your niece. However, any idea that the DNC somehow wouldn’t be just as willing to gut safety nets is wrong. You’re attributing the results of a system meant to represent the Capitalist class to the individual whims of party members, but that’s not the material basis for the state. The State is run by Capitalists, the parties are their limbs and hands.
The basis of the DNC and GOP is in corporate donors, and the revolving door with various industries tied to the US Government. Harris ran an even more right-wing campaign than Biden, why? Why did Trump win 2024? Why do elections go the way they go? Because as workers, the decision is not given to us, the system is pre-selected and gerrymandered precisely so that the will of Capital is always upheld.
The path forward is and always has been revolution. The admission that you mostly just cast your vote and occasionally protest while conditions necessarily decline alongside Capitalism is just kicking the can down the road while the damage gets worse. I can recommend theory if you want, or recommend orgs to join like PSL, but if you stubbornly assert that your only genuine political action can be within the context of the electoral system and you insist on putting all of the blame on the GOP rather than the system at large, you’re going to be watching as conditions get worse for you and your family no matter which party is in power.
All my local PSL does is go to protests and post gofundmes.
Seems a lot like the type of lackluster activism you accused me of
Sure the parent organization has a better message, but they seem generally ineffective. But I guess that’s what the system is designed to do. No real change can occur without revolt. And that will be suppressed with extreme violence.
PSL does work behind the scenes with respect to labor organizing and whatnot, plus what they can actually do is impacted by how many members they have. If you feel they aren’t doing much, you can ask them directly why that is or if there’s more they are doing you don’t know about.
You do make a good point. They could have more going on and maybe just have a weaker advertisement of it. I’ll look deeper into my local chapter
Good! There are also likely other orgs you can check out in your area if PSL isn’t a good fit.