I’m reposting a comment I made to open up a broader discussion now that it looks like Burgerland is about to go full McCarthy again…

So what are we supposed to do? If elections are useless and lead to state violence, and organizing leads to state violence, and doing nothing just means the Fascists win by default… I hear the doom-and-gloom but we need solutions. How did the Bosheviks survive? Heck, how did left organizers survive the McCarthy era?

I don’t want to die on their terms.

I also don’t want to regret my life when I look back on what I could have done.

IDK… I feel like we’re in a sort of “checkmate” situation. Fascists have figured it all out and there doesn’t appear to be a path forward for the left that doesn’t end in tragedy. OTOH the kinds of fascist death squad actions that are “expected” for impoverished “third world” countries will yield a very different reaction in the core of Capitalism. Instability in burgerland affects the whole world and the entire non-China global economy can crumble if people went on strike en-masse.

  • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netBannedOPEnglish
    13·
    29 天前

    I hear you, I just see that as a non-starter to ask most people to put their only way to pay bills on the line. The answer there is mutual aid & strike funds, but hard to make it work when we’re all poor to begin with 🙃

    • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      29 天前

      The problem is that all the money gets dumped into elections that really won’t change anything. If even a tenth of the money unions and left wing organizations spend on elections went into actually organizing workers and building permanent institutions for them it would far exceed what is being spent on organizing now and would drastically change the political playing field (including making elections easier for progressives).