Cowbee

Fascism isn't an idea, it's a defense mechanism. Voting isn't going to matter, vote for whoever you like, I don't care. You can vote for Harris if you join an org, how about that?

I am 100% acting in good faith. My point is that you can signal all you want, but that absolutely does not mean you can cross the finish line. Parties in power do not operate based on what the public wants, but what their donors want. The US doesn't have federally enshrined abortion rights, medicare for all, stricter gun laws, even though the majority want those, because party donors do not.

Organizing is how you get popular policy through. MLK Jr., the Black Panther Party, and Malcolm X got the Civil Rights movement to actually enact change, not just discussion, because the government was worried about armed revolt.

Yep, that's why Marx is correct. Capitalism consolidates itself into large monopolist syndicates, removing the usefulness of Capitalists and eliminating competition, whereby Central Planning of public property becomes greatly more efficient.

The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by the revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

-Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party

For more reading, Why Public Property? is a good article elaborating in modern lingo.

Yes. I am asking you about the "varied and complex" proceeses that turn talked about policy into policy.

It helps that Lemmy is developed and maintained by Communists, so Leftists have a stronghold on Lemmy that won't be able to go away.

Depends on the instance. Lemmy.world is liberal, ie right leaning, Hexbear.net is leftist, it depends on which instance you pick.

If you pick a good, internally stable instance, it's great. Local can be more curated to your tastes, All can be more general.

I can discuss in-depth with you if you'd like, but Blackshirts and Reds is the perfect book for you. AES is by no means a fantasy wonderland, but it is a dramatic improvement on existing conditions. The Kuomintang and the Tsars were more brutal than the Communists, and that brutality lasted for centuries.

The opposite, I'm arguing for revolution.

George Washington.

Not my intention, but I imagine your mind is pretty well made-up about me already.

Okay, good! The offer is still open if you want to take it down the line. Have a good one!