• InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    If we prove we’ll keep fucking electing republicans, yeah, we’re never getting anywhere

    You really aren’t getting it. Elections will never solve anything in the imperialist core. Electing anyone won’t ever get anyone anywhere in a capitalist society with billions of dollars floating around buying the elections. Open your fucking mind to new possibilities. I will send in a mail-in ballot if you join a communist organization and shut up and listen and do the reading and go to their events, how about that?

    • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip
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      6 days ago

      I don’t know that I’m ready to join an organization, but I’m open to doing some reading if you’re willing to compromise a bit. I’ve read the Communist Manifesto, and I think it’s inevitably going to become reality, but I think we’ll only ever really achieve it if we can obtain it peacefully. We can’t build a collaborative society with violence, the tools of oppression. I understand the rage over the current state of things, but a society founded on violence can be transformed again through violence. It’ll be achieved once we can organize and act with enough unity to force it peacefully. Maybe a good book or two will change my mind. If you’ll compromise a bit, I’ll agree to read some material if you’ll vote, and I’ll compromise a bit by not pushing you to vote for one of the only two candidates who’s going to win.