Post by tumblr user "lizardsfromspace": "People still doing 'do you think voting can fix this' memes when the answer to the question 'when did voting last end an authoritarian regime' is 'two days ago'"
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[+] -7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

ITT: authoritarian regime x10000

Fyi when leftists talk about the ineffectiveness of voting without a communist party, they are explicitly referring to mode of production. Did that change in Chile or Serbia? There's your answer.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    True democracy is a series of riots and rebellions. It happens when we all together, collectively, say "they can't stop all of us." Events like this are not the end goal of the project of liberation, but instead a loosening of the straps that prevent us from organizing true labor power. This is still a win for the people, worth celebrating, however, it should not be treated as the end goal of democratic progression (which many people will treat it as). In the coming weeks and months, I predict we will see many examples of this big tent government failing to fully protect and value the rights and liberties that the people should enjoy. The sooner the people start organizing themselves into units of power that restrict the harms the government can do to them, the better.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Government is not intrinsically bad, this is idealism. Government that serves a dictatorship of the proletariat is a good thing.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    in this context, i meant this specific government. i suspect we have some disagreements about the inherent violence of state-based hierarchies, however within this exact context these differences of opinion are relatively immaterial as what we're talking about is what comes next in one place in the world in one particular moment in time

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    So what?

    Sorry things aren't getting better in the way you want, but getting better in a different, not mode of production way.

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