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VideoWitch
@VideoWitch

Someone I follow on tumblr reblogged a post chastising leftists for not participating in local elections and seeing it has filled me with a deeply intense anger that I am now forced to stew in.


VideoWitch
@VideoWitch

like that is obnoxious and frustrating regardless of when you say it but it is beyond that in the current moment. Being like "most of the demands of people who say they want a revolution can be achieved via voting in local elections" as the us government aids a genocide is beyond the fucking pale


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

"most of the demands of people who say they want a revolution can be achieved via voting in local elections"

Can it?? Can it really??

Cause a significant chunk of the population of Seattle went to open battle with the SPD and demanded police abolition with reducing police funding as the transitional demand and every single city council candidate has been campaigning since on increasing police funding! And reducing police funding is not a remotely revolutionary demand! We can't even get "stop spending all of the city's money on white supremacist murderers" through electoral politics! I am going to throttle these people!


Reba-Rabbit
@Reba-Rabbit

Harm reduction? Sure. Definitely. Do your best to limit the harm to yourself and the people around you. Most of that will be local. I've seen some say that there's no point in it, and it's a statement without fact. All electoral politics can currently do is reduce the STILL accelerating rate of pain and suffering and death. The fact that it's still accelerating makes some people feel lost and hopeless. Don't fall into that trap. Do everything outside of the system to change the system until it is no longer recognizable as the white supremacist, colonialist, capitalist, patriarchal, genocide absolving and assisting piece of shit that it is (as someone who hasn't yet settled on exactly how anarchic I am, there may not even be much use for a system at all). BUT, use the system that's there to mitigate harm. It isn't a powerful tool, but it is STILL a tool. It can and has been the difference between life and death for those with the most precarity. Use it, but always ALWAYS inform and encourage those you're around on the need to and ways to change things outside of that system while you do. No laziness on that last part. Spreading the message and tactics on how to change things outside of the electoral system is the most important educational and organizational act you can take part in. The more people that aren't lost in hopelessness and despair, the more people that understand the problem and that it CAN be overcome the better everyone's chances.


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in reply to @DecayWTF's post:

I agree with the point in a very narrow scope: once you amass enough for a revolution you can choose when the start date is, you've already won all of the elections because you've got a plurality bloc at worst :V

but it hinges on a fundamental misunderstanding of how revolutions work. or rather, a revolution you can plan out that much only happens in the books.

Sure. At the point you've built sufficient power and if your organization runs in the direction of a political party it may not even be unreasonable to contest elections, viz. Lenin, but at that point it's fighting on equal ground. But yeah exactly.

yeah a lot of the electoralists point to lenin saying we need to contest parliament, but like, the parliament he was contesting was one where one guy could tie up the floor and actually be heard lol

there's elections worth voting in (especially municipal in cities with extended legal authority like NYC) but they can't be where nearly all the labor or focus goes, and instead as a side effect.

if you organize (ugh) your district you'll never need to canvass, you can instead make collective-demands of anyone who would fill the seat you have a collective-majority over, as the example we used to commonly use