• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Depends on what you’re talking about, but usually it either means they are in the global south, or have otherwise had a longer history of working class organization or proximity to socialist countries. Not by voting.

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      11 hours ago

      Not by voting.

      Lol.

      Can you provide examples of countries with viable left leaning parties that didn’t get there by voting?

      You think working class organization is successful without voting in candidates that champion their cause?

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        6 hours ago

        USSR, PRC, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, Nicaragua, Venezuela, etc. were all won through revolution and working class organization. Even then, my point was clearly about the necessity of organizing. It is through working class organizing that politicians and the capitalist class are threatened into giving concessions, not through passively voting for sloganeers and other charlatans.

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        8 hours ago

        Crazy how some people have very strong opinions on politics but no basic understanding of how democracy works

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            3 hours ago

            You want change: organize and vote. Lots of comments here that seem to view politics as a show, as if we were powerless against the events that unfold week after week. It’s only a show if you don’t care enough to participate.