• citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
    86·
    4 months ago

    They don’t want victory, they don’t want power

    you are describing the DNC, not the left.
    the left would actually do something with power, which is why the bougie system will not let them touch the levers and will merc anyone who poses a serious threat.

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      70·
      4 months ago

      insert Adam Curtis speech about how liberals are afraid of power

      Power is a dirty word to libs, they’re brainwashed by endless children’s movies about how power is bad and must be destroyed.

      But yeah, you can’t attain victory without power. The idea that capitalists will just let us win without us forcing them to us just childish and naive.

      You need power to do anything. That’s the whole point of the left organising, to make people realise that there is power and strength in community and that there are more of us than of the ruling class.

      All rights that women gained were won violently.

      All rights slaves gained were won violently.

      All rights poc won were won violently.

      The defeat of Nazis Germany in WW2 was won violently.

      Even the right to have your weekend off was won violently.

    • Red_sun_in_the_sky [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      38·
      4 months ago

      Well according the poster and the annoying philosophy grad they are the only way to get things done. I don’t know what “things” are here. To them slavery or jim crow ended cause they put to vote to no longer do it. They reiterate that we respectfully vote and get reforms respectfully. Otherwise its satlin mao authoritarian gulag 0 freedumb.