I was under the impression that even in other countries, activism is generally separate from the political parties and it's more like activist groups putting pressure on candidates and organizing for them if they are more favorable, and sometimes getting something in return.
I've seen exceptions, but I gather they are rare (and we can already see some change as the party is under pressure to become more "normal" and "competitive").
Don't tempt the fates. You will get this, but everything else will be worse.
Trust me. Don't temp the fates.
Yes, you horrible criminal monster.
Looking back, I probably shouldn’t have been doing that. Definitely illegal.
You know that stuff you post on lemmy is probably on databases everywhere for like, forever, right?
I used 7zip for so long I thought it was retro by now.
It's like a few lifetime's worth of efforts went into defending this guy.
Revolutions tends to lead to powerful people seizing the state and centralizing everything.
The usual theory they bandy about it is that they are a "vanguard" of "elites" who will prepare the ground for socialism. And when they are done they will turn the system over to the workers to control it like promised, from the bottom up.
Spoilers : They never do, so far at least.
Instead they will take over any worker-led initiative and stifle it and shoot the organizers if they don't get the memo. You wind up with the state owning the means of production and the workers owning next to nothing and being worked as hard as under capitalism. You typically wind up with a centralized, bureaucratic dictatorship.
On top of that, because the rest of the world is in a different system and to become a socialist state one must break the other system's rules, you've pissed off most of the powerful people outside your border. This leads to a besieged mentality (and assassination attempts, and coup attempts, etc.) which keeps up the pressure on that state to keep being a dictatorial, paranoid mess. Oh and it can also lead to stiffened trade as you become a pariah. And historically the USSR's economy for instance performed worse than the US's.
That said, other alternatives don't have to include armed revolution. You can start a worker coop, and that is technically socialism (or anarchism? I forget), because the workers would own the means of production. You'd be able to do that within a capitalist framework without too much conflict and without pissing too many people off (really I can't see anyone but ideological goblins and competitors bitching about this. And competitors always bitch anyways). Of course, contrary to wage labour, you have to bear the financial risks yourself.
Not sure which attitude you mean. I say we should do what we can. What we can may not be enough. We should still do it.
But there is no magic button to do so. We demonstrated, a half million people in the streets of Montreal, in a province that numbers 8 million. That was years ago. Nothing meaningful changed. The provincial government is still basing it's strategy on electric cars. Cars are still mostly fuel based and growing in size and those electric cars are still growing. Public transit options here are stagnating (the pandemic hurt their budget, since fewer people travel, and the government doesn't want to fill the gap). There is no ongoing major discussion about cutting down on meat subsidies (not even on cutting down on the meat/dairy/eggs industry, we're still subsidizing this crap).
Society is like a mountain to move.
Nah, she just wants to reply some snarky comments that don't really inform people other than letting them know she thinks they are wrong, and that's she thinks she's some kind of authority on the matter.
People who appear intelligent to the average person, are either slightly more intelligent than their audience, or charismatic.
Really smart people can be hard to follow unless they put efforts in communication skills or are charismatic (but that might be the same thing?)
Eh, even if we go extinct, we can at least make the good years last longer, and delay the horrors a bit. Hopefully. Maybe if we buy enough time some wiz can find a crazy solution involving fusion power, geoengineering or duct tape.
Which is "ok" as wages will start to go up over time (for some). But some wages don't climb as fast and some people are on fixed revenue (old people, disabled people).
So it requires readjustments