Late Stage Capitalism

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A place for for news, discussion, memes, and links criticizing capitalism and advancing viewpoints that challenge liberal capitalist ideology. That means any support for any liberal capitalist political party (like the Democrats) is strictly prohibited.

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They'll come demanding our votes any day now (lemmy.world)

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[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed.

Karl Marx, Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League London, March 1850

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Saving this for other discussion around the fediverse.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

We reached the same conclusion, I think it's obvious!

Meanwhile, many can't imagine voting without the "we won!!!" cookie, because they can't look at anything logically and they are ignorant of history.

If it wasn't for third parties, my state would STILL be locking thousands of people up. Over 50 years of fighting for legalization, none of it by major parties.

Most people think politics is simply voting, because they're lazy and easy to manipulate. Join your party (any party). Become a precinct committee officer or the equivalent, maybe even collect signatures for local initiatives? There's lots of work to do.

A few people make a big difference when they actually work for a common goal; after all, 95% choose to sit at home and hurl insults on the internet instead.