• алсааас [she/they]M
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    Almost as if they are doing it on purpose and are just the more culturally liberal of the two Wall Street parties… 🤔🤔

      • алсааас [she/they]M
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        and even if they did get in power, they’d still support NATO and imperialism in general, still support capitalist exploitation, and still would only pay lip service to or fight symptoms of systemic issues instead of ripping the cause that is capitalism out by it’s root

          • алсааас [she/they]M
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            1118 days ago

            If you had made any honest attempt to look into socialist politics, you’d know that there are a lot of actionable ideas there

            • Fushuan [he/him]
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              018 days ago

              Theoretically, but having an actionable idea means to have an idea that you have a plan to put in action. So as always, where is it?

              • @latenightnoir@lemmy.world
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                … revolution. That is the idea. We are talking about two completely different things, you expect run-down people to think logically and clearly about something as complex as an alternative*(edit) societal system while actively existing in some of the worst social contexts we’ve seen in decades, while we are talking about acting in such a manner as to free up the cognitive bandwidth necessary to determine what you demand.

                It’s like any other toxic relationship, you can’t begin to heal until you’ve exited said relationship.

                To clarify, by any means necessary. Start demanding, start opposing, start rallying. Spread the word, keep the reality of things alive in people’s awareness, because the natural instinct is to retreat and deny in order to protect oneself, but that’s exactly the trap the Right sets and then springs for a massive boost in support from downtrodden, desperate people.

                Edit to add: the Right and Capitalism, because they both infiltrate and exist by solving problems they themselves create, thus garnering support through necessity.

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                You can easily look up the answer to your question by yourself: leftist theory, often in the form of books (or even just watching video essays, listening to podcasts etc. etc.)

                You can start over here https://www.marxists.org/

                One could argue that there are too many different socialist approaches to revolution or rather that it’s not all that easy finding the correct one to your situation

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                  Additionally, check out the previous revolutions from around the world! Most of them didn’t happen on a basis of theory, but of people determined to change their condition.

                  Take Romania, for example. Sure, that’s an example of a revolution which ended up replacing one disaster with another, but even that holds a lesson for us: word-of-mouth is king, don’t give into desperation when figuring out the next attempt.

        • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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          518 days ago

          Ooo that got downvoted. All for saying “Fuck America” until NATO is stated, then it’s “Actually, America is holy and great.”