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Pragmatic Leftist Theory

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The neolibs are too far right. The tankies are doing whatever that is. Where's the space for the people who want fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism, but realize that it's gonna take a while and there are lots of steps between now and then? Here. This is that space.

Here, people should endeavor to discuss and devise practical, actionable leftist action. Vote lesser evil while you build grassroots coalitions. Unionize your workplace. Participate in SRAs. Build cohesion your local community. Educate the proletariat.

This is a place for practical people to develop practical plans to implement stable, incremental improvement.

If you're dead-set on drumming up all 18,453 True Leftists® into spontaneous Revolution, go somewhere else. The grown ups are talking.

Rules:

-1. Don't be a dick. Racism, sexism, other assorted bigotries, you know the drill. At least try to default to mutually respectful discussion. We're all on the same side here, unless you aren't, in which case kindly leave.

-2. Don't be a tankie. Yes I'm sure you have an extensive knowledge of century-old theory. There's been a century of history since then. Things didn't shake out as expected, maybe consider the possibility that a different angle of attack might be more effective in light of new data.

-3. Be practical. No one on the left benefits from counterproductive actions. This is a space informed by, not enslaved to, ideology. Promoting actions that are fundamentally untenable in the system in question, because they fulfill a sense of ideological purity, is a bad look. Don't do that.

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[–] dumbocrat69@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

The optimal play would have been not to bomb civilians. But your whole point is denialism. Tell me again how voting for genocide was unavoidable?

[–] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago

lol.

"Tell me again how voting for genocide was unavoidable?"

You need me to explain how the American election system works?

Why don't you grow up?

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Damn, in my hypothetical fantasy land Harris solved the crisis and fostered a perfect two state solution. I guess we'll never know how it would play out now because we elected a fascist. "Couldn't be worse" right?

[–] NantiHanks@sh.itjust.works 0 points 42 minutes ago (1 children)

The dems only bombed civilians because they knew their base were cowards and that they would be too scared for it to be a dealbreaker.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago) (1 children)

It's almost like the "deal" we're weighing is way fucking bigger than one issue. I'm sure next election will have a plethora of progressive candidates and some nice friendly brown-shirt poll watchers cheering us on (we sure taught the dems a lesson right 😎 (don't worry Gaza, help is on the way, just a slight detour through CECOT))

[–] NantiHanks@sh.itjust.works 0 points 27 minutes ago (1 children)

Genocide is a pretty big fucking "issue", idiot.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

So is being rounded up in unmarked vans for even speaking out about the genocide that your president is still enabling. Protesting the blue candidate didn't just not change anything, it actively made everything worse

Is that too complex of a thought for you?

[–] NantiHanks@sh.itjust.works 0 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

Well at least you're paying your share of the price instead of just sending the bill to the middle east.

The truth is that white first world citizens liberalism is only concerned with their own life. The goal is to channel fascism to harm foreigners instead.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

Ok so no solution then, you just want everyone to suffer. Ladies and gentlemen, look at the sheer genius of the accelerationism. Completely indistinguishable from the red pilled angst of the modern right.

Literally no political stance, no goals, nothing constructive at all. Congrats, that's quite a platform.