Can someone summarize? I can't watch a video at the moment.
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
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In a nutshell, ContraPoints tweeted some stuff saying that anti-electoralism is mostly pointless posturing and shitposting. Anark responds reasonably without shitting or dunking on ContraPoints that supporting the electoral system is a huge time/energy/resource sink that just upholds the establishment.
All real change takes time and comes from bottom up. The worker movement of the early 1900s is his main and best example. All of that change came from revolutionary organizing and activity and it was slow and bottom up. His main point is instead of spending all that time/energy/resources on an establishment, spend it on organizing and building for the new world/system. Force that change from the bottom up from outside the system, since the system just wants to perpetuate itself anyway.
is mostly pointless posturing
It's kind of funny considering that this is by definition true for electorialism as well.
Anti-electorialism at least advocates for less of that, even though indeed the people that promote it online are mostly LARPing it.
Funny how all this Discourse always comes out during peak campaigning times. Right after the election, suddenly ContraPoints falls off the radar and so do these "revolutionaries".
I think devoting, like, 6 months every four years to making sure literal fascists don't come to power and immediately round up all your revolutionaries to execute them on the town square would not be too big of an ask. He'll have plenty of time in December to do whatever he usually does without worrying about electoralism.
It takes a position of enormous privilege to be this disconnected from political pragmatism. If Trump wins, Natalie Wynn won't get to participate in a revolution. She'd be lucky to survive at all.
Funny how all this Discourse always comes out during peak campaigning times.
Non-electoralists complain about too much time being wasted right when the most time is being put into electoralism. Weird. /s
I think devoting, like, 6 months every four years to making sure literal fascists don't come to power
You're very close to getting it.
If Trump wins, Natalie Wynn won't get to participate in a revolution. She'd be lucky to survive at all.
Would be great if you watched the video before starting the shit talking.