So why obses over us, just go join PSL or some maoists

Go read their other articles before you offer those as options 🤣 there is no hope for you people at all. You all ought to be thrown into the sea with your Zionist pets

Cool story bro, go join PSL or some maoist sect.

These numbers are quite staggering, and their complexity gets even worse when we factor in other demographics such as age, ethnicity, and location. It should be incredibly obvious that the Marxist-Leninist parties, who claim to represent the interests of the Proletariat (those who have nothing to sell but their labor power), are spending millions of dollars and thousands of hours to platform watered-down socialism to predominantly white voters aged 45 and over who earn $100,000 or more annually, the labor aristocracy, historically the least likely to give a communist the time of day let alone join in their “movement.” The Proletariat and lumpenproletariat, roughly 65% and 8% of the U.S. population respectively, are indeed the least likely to turn up to the polls whether it comes to local or federal elections.

Frantz Fanon, in The Wretched of the Earth, explained that “it is among these masses, in the people of the shanty towns and in the lumpenproletariat that the insurrection will find its urban spearhead. The lumpenproletariat, this cohort of starving men, divorced from tribe and clan, constitutes one of the most spontaneously and radically revolutionary forces of a colonized people.”

He also explained that these factions of people, who have already been pushed to the outskirts of society, systematically excluded from participating in the system and often abused by it, already understand how broken the system is and are willing to challenge it. “So the pimps, the hooligans, the unemployed, and the petty criminals, urged on from behind, throw themselves into the struggle for liberation like stout working men.” Further, it is of the utmost importance that revolutionaries get to the lumpenproletariat first, because the bourgeoisie “will also find in the lumpenproletariat a considerable space for manoeuvring.”

In Sum, Put Away the Fucking Ballots

In conclusion, it is evident that after over a century of participation in bourgeois elections, they have not produced any meaningful results, by any possible metric, at urging the working class toward political consciousness. In fact, by taking more than a superficial glance into the justifications these parties make for their participation in bourgeois elections, we find that they have neither a theoretical nor a material leg to stand on to justify their continual use.

By every possible metric, our participation is a failure, an astounding misappropriation of passionate revolutionaries’ time, money, and energy that is drilled into a completely feckless endeavor. When we look into the amount of money that these campaigns require, it becomes more than just a silly oversight of party leadership to continue this failed strategy, and becomes a deliberate, opportunistic strategy to thwart any revolutionary change.

More concerning, revolutionary language, to this day, is flattened into that of reformism and revisionism, despite Lenin’s diagnosis over 100 years ago. While many (though not all) Marxist-Leninist parties take the “correct” geopolitical stances, and have astute material analysis in their publications, when we look at their actual organizational efforts and what they advocate for, it becomes evident that these are not serious revolutionary parties.

This should not discourage any revolutionaries within these parties, or those who have considered joining them, but these revolutionary Marxists should take up reading theory as a preventative measure against allowing their hearts and minds to be corrupted by opportunism, and understand that it is their duty to fight opportunism!

What we can also take from this long-winded critique that there is a clear path forward. But we simply do not have the time to continue to recycle failed strategies and to tiptoe around the sensitivities of the comrades or leaders who have engaged in these strategies. It is time to stop organizing the labor aristocracy, the liberals who show up to No Kings protests, the engineers who work from home, and the suburban neo-liberals who love to “two things can be true at once” us into war.

While these groups are always welcome to prove themselves as comrades to the struggle and to join in our efforts toward revolution, it is evident that our primary focus should be foremost on the lumpenproletariat and the proletariat, those who are disengaged from elections and left behind by society.

Given the bloody century of feckless endeavors by American Marxists, a good place to start is by going to these communities and learning from them, and gradually working to earn their trust by meeting their needs (using the Panther’s as a template, forging it’l solidarity along the way) and being consistently devout to the proletarian struggle. It is our job to have faith in these comrades’ ability to intrinsically understand their own exploitation, and to present them with a means to become the tools of their own liberation.

Further, we MUST distance ourselves from the progressive liberals, the social democrats, the pseudo “socialists,” and all other social-chauvinists and opportunists who have co-opted the term socialism to obfuscate and confuse the true nature of it. This clear line of demarcation is necessary to ensure that our solution to the diagnosis of capitalism (and the proletariat’s clear understanding of such) stands in stark contrast to the feckless measures that will reproduce systems of suffering.

There is only one solution.

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Agreed. A big tent is going to collapse in on itself, not lead to a revolution. That they wound up with some whiny neolib on their trip to Cuba shows that they are not educating or vetting people enough. All of the current wave of support in the imperial press is clearly in favor of social democracy, not even democratic socialism even though they're using that term. Honestly, that might even be a psyop to further water down the membership to the point that any revolutionary potential within the DSA is effectively squashed. I hope this leads to DSA fracturing, and those who are actual socialists joining another org.

What insanity are you demanding, that nobody involved in politics can prefer one candidate over another?

@RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world @OwOarchist@pawb.social

This is exactly the kind of pussyfooting around issues like Abu Ghraib & other black sites, imperialist wars in general, that is leading the democrats themselves into political irrelevancy. "Erm we don't approve of Platner's campaign being derailed by extremely credible rape accusations after we blew off the first ones, we just wish he had delivered Better Living Standards™ to the people of Maine" has the same ring to it as "look we hate the Mullahs just as much as anyone, in fact we had similar operations against the Dictatorship planned, we just disagree with how Trump does it". There are zero political alternatives to the democrats which are not democrats lite or some kind of bullshit cult. I won't elaborate on what needs to be done to the USA in light of this.

You haven't learned anything from years + years of eating shit & making compromises with nobody for "optical" benefits, other than that the "activists & purity testers" are getting you down. They would be better off caving your skulls in with pots & pans.

Recommending the lesser evil is very far from an endorsement.

Hm. What they're describing is almost re-inventing the IWW. Such as acting like a union even if you can't get recognized by the NLRB, can't get a majority, or the standard unions won't take you on due to strategy or your shop is too small.

Yet they don't mention the IWW once, which is odd.

Quit stroking yourself off. There is work that continues to need to be done. You think the evil is resting?

one-time 5% tax

Theater.

What's funny?

Thanks, I needed a laugh

I hate to say it but many of the Dems in power are also supporting this if only with less violent rhetoric. The rich have captured the political class almost entirely and are wielding them to suppress anyone who they deem to be a threat to their hegemony in any way. The most vulnerable populations that are being targeted are examples of what happens to everyone else if we continue to let this go unchecked.

We must organize a mass movement that becomes undeniable to such a degree that we can seize power back from them. Playing ball only serves to extend their power such that they can find more ways to divide and conquer us yet again.

Join your local orgs and get involved. A better world is possible but we must build it together. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us and the only way out is robust community organizing.

Well. Genocide and brutality against citizens is enough to convince me - current day republicans are nazis just biding their time until they have enough dumb people convinced that declaring war on their own countrymen is some sort of solution to a problem they made up themselves. 😓

Oh lol totally missed that you're not OP 😅

Lol friends with befits would be a better selling point, but it's meant for Fort Walton Beach. It should make sense to people that live there

Oh no I live across the ocean, I had to Google it too 😋 (also, not OP)

All right, I assume that's a common enough abbreviation around you then, though if you'd go for a reprint someday, maybe consider writing out fully 😅

FWB = Fort Walton Beach, which is close to Pensacola.

Friends with benefits feels really out of place there but maybe a really good selling point? 😆

2 points of feedback:

• what's FWB if not friends with benefits? Or are you really suggesting some free love stuff happens there?
• do you mean brake lights?

They do almost everyday depending on how busy the show schedule/news is! They are a show definitely worth calling as well too as they do honestly engage with callers and are always excited to platform good shit.

I think they take calls for a section of most episodes during the week but could be wrong.

It is my idea. Now I just have to prepare some telling points and figure out when they do call ins