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Entry #1: the entire .ml user base (feddit.dk)
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[+] -6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

e do not have the luxury of ineffective practice and taking it easy while climate change is on the clock and the global south suffers for our inability to do what must be dons.

I have been on lemmy for some time now. I see .ml in the exact same place. DSA has a major city. Even shit dems drag their feet where a repub would be a crusader. The way I see it is that it buys you time, so I hope all this organizing is actually going somewhere. Tho it does seem odd that for all the passion and urgency .ml really does not seem intrested in material results.

I am not going to argue that the DSA is all that, but they show more people that socialism is not scary.

Shit dems give less robust support to Israel. Did you know that is still helpful to those on the literal front line? Well thanks to .ml all or nothing means that Hamas now has to fight Israel at its strongest.

I mentioned it before. Elections have consequences and it would be great is .ml had solidarity to help minimize the negative parts. All war is class war, and soldiers get dirty if they are in trenches. They also have to live to fight another day.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    More vague character assassinations against ".ml," without actually engaging with the point: the Marxist position is that elections cannot bring about socialism, so the primary focus of any organization should be on grassroots struggle and growth, cadre training, and organizing, not on electoral campaigns. That's the point, that's the critique of the overwhelmingly electoral DSA. You keep beating this vague and impossible to actually define ".ml" because it's harder for you to criticize actual political positions and parties, and it's for those very same reasons that I reserve my critique for positions and parties as they actually exist, not vague ".world types."

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  • [+] -8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    so the primary focus of any organization should be on grassroots struggle and growth, cadre training, and organizing

    All of those things can be done in parallel with election. Especially local ones.

    You keep beating this vague and impossible to actually define “.ml”

    Its not vauge. Your dogma makes you closed minded.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I never said resources cannot be allocated to both elections and organizing. If you do organizing work, you understand that your resources, both monetary and in terms of volunteer labor, are exceptionally limited. The position is that because elections cannot bring about socialism, the bulk of the work should be done on grassroots organizing and struggle.

    You keep insinuating a binary that nobody is arguing for, using a strawman you call ".mls." To begin with, Lemmy.ml is neither an ideology nor a party, it's a site commonly used by Marxists. Why not just say "Marxists" or "Marxist-Leninists?" Because you'd have to engage with Marxism and Marxism-Leninism directly, not through a strawman.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago*

    I have been on lemmy for some time now. I see .ml in the exact same place. DSA has a major city. Even shit dems drag their feet where a repub would be a crusader.

    so first off .ml is a server for shitposting on the internet, not a political organization.

    i am pretty connected in my local milieu and all my marxist comrades have been working their asses off for over a fucking year protesting and pressuring electeds over the healthcare for trans kids in our state getting cut. the 100% democrat state government and affiliated nonprofits has been having them arrested. they prefer to comply in advance with the fascist ass republicans and sacrifice trans healthcare in the name of protecting institutions.

    the reason i have so much ire for the democrats is that the the time for action is now and they're all just fucking fundraising and keeping their heads down hoping a vote will fix things.

    having their cultists threatening to put me on a list cause they don't like my internet posting is just another fucking day in the life

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