I think some leftist accelerationists believe that electing Trump will galvanize resistance the way it did 2017-2020. The ways that regular folks joined us, marched, and actually paid attention to things besides soccer practice was legit heartening and often helpful. I’m thinking about popular demonstrations against the migrant camps, organizing Covid relief and mutual aid, and generally saying “fuck this guy and his policies.”

But if Trump returns, none of that shit is going to happen.

  1. Those would-be allies might conclude that all that resistance was for nothing, and give up. Especially if he wins an outright majority.

  2. Trump is pretty open that he intends to use violence against his political opponents, and this time he likely won’t be constrained by any sort of deep state. Especially if he wins an outright majority.

That’s my thinking, but any accelerationists want to tell me where I’m wrong?

  • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Your free-speech hand-wringing is despicable; not because I “disagree” with it or don’t “value it” as much as you do but because it’s based on the premise that any of our speech is actually “free”.

    For that speech to take place in a forum it’s relatively nice to have an unbiased, non-atomized electorate discussing principles and civics. We don’t have that. Everybody is atomized. Everybody falls for propaganda; even Marxists sometimes. This “forum” that we exist in does not acknowledge or serve the interests of the working class people. That is where our interest is as Marxists. Kamala, nor Trump has any interests in serving these interests of the working class. In other words, your speech is useless.

    When your speech actually does challenge the status quo or the way things are…you get shot. Fred Hampton. You get exiled. Edward Snowden. Or you’re on the run for years. Julian Assange. The Communist Control Act of the 50s is still a law on the books that could easily be used to completely legally suppress a communist movement. The Taft-Hartley Act prevents communists from organizing strikes.

    So, where exactly is our freedom of speech again? Because “freedom of speech” as the “Founding Fathers” (fuck them) intended it didn’t mean the freedom to shitpost about Drumpf on Lemmy. It meant the ability to criticize and invoke change in your governance. Do we have that? Does your vote really count that much? If you think yes, I got a ball right here you can kick.

    Go ahead and doot away. Doesn’t change the fact Fred Hampton was murdered by the police for exercising his “Freedom of Speech”