There’s something fundamentally incoherent in pretending electoralism is a dead end while armed revolt is on the table for the American left, that couldn’t be further from the truth, there is no extant American Workers Party to organize armed workers and the US military body is still cohesive and massive
Armed revolt is a viable tool for the Third World, not the Western left. The American masses are electoralist in political mode and outlook which means the left must be there to contest that ground; otherwise they’ll fall for fascism
There’s something fundamentally incoherent in pretending electoralism is a dead end while armed revolt is on the table for the American left
I don’t believe either of these things are true tbh. There is certainly usefulness in electoralism on a case by case basis but not as any revolutionary strategy. I think at best we can mitigate harm by building parallel power as the empire declines and cannibalizes itself.
There’s something fundamentally incoherent in pretending electoralism is a dead end while armed revolt is on the table for the American left, that couldn’t be further from the truth, there is no extant American Workers Party to organize armed workers and the US military body is still cohesive and massive
Armed revolt is a viable tool for the Third World, not the Western left. The American masses are electoralist in political mode and outlook which means the left must be there to contest that ground; otherwise they’ll fall for fascism
I don’t believe either of these things are true tbh. There is certainly usefulness in electoralism on a case by case basis but not as any revolutionary strategy. I think at best we can mitigate harm by building parallel power as the empire declines and cannibalizes itself.