[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

No, not really, I mean some tankies out there are like that, but then again if your logic is on the level of tankies you're most likely wrong. A right wing shooter killed Kirk, that's just a fact.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    What Daryl Davis does might work if you are talking about a very small group, but by the time it reaches percentage points of the population that method no longer works as the societal support structure grows from these vial ideologies, the weaker an approach based on societal influence. Eventually the only option left is violence as you have two opposing societies and can no longer pull "radicals" out of their hatred.

    Just like with the Fascists of the early 20th century, the only option left was to expunge these hateful societies.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    Not to be that guy, but you can very well be a leftist, hell even a full on communist, and be reformist, you don't need to pull a Robespierre (ironically a Liberal btw) LARP to change the world.

    Also, dual power, what a fever dream, do you really think that any sovereign entity is going to allow an alternate sovereign entity to exist within the same space? That so absurd you may as well start believing in the Libertarian "subscription governments" because essentially it's the same thing. Either you reform the current system into Socialism, or you roll the dice and pull a revolution, problem is, that no one knows exactly who will come out on top during those.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Guns are in fact the only method to achieve revolution. A General strike/targeted boycott, etc... are reformist (and yes leftists can be reformist as well), AND they also tend to ignore the material reality if you try and use them as a revolutionary tool.

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