The U.S. won’t even let other countries vote for socialism, you think they’re gonna let it happen here?
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2023
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....aaand that's a coup.
I like to see it as the preferable option to otherwise executing the ruling class. However, you can't really argue with results.
Problem is that we can see the results of attempts at revolutionary communism - the failure to adequately flatten wealth inequality leads to the reconsolidation of wealth and political power into oligarchs that twist the political machine to their own interests, killing worker enfranchisement, and killing decommodification or making it a corrupt means of wealth extraction.
I don't have any good answers here - the status quo is apocalypticly broken, history shows the revolutionary alternate is almost certainly worse, and the democratic path forward doesn't seem viable.
Eating the rich in service of a democratic change may be the most effective solution - I'm open to ideas.
The question should not be whether or not we eat them, it should be soy or barbecue sauce.
Could we get other options? I'm voting spicy honey mustard or buffalo
There's a lot of power in organized labor given the right conditions.
While this is true, it is not nearly as tasty.
Gotta churn that 1% to get the old out often
I wanna see it either way, televised.
Active protest and similar methods of political change are not mutually exclusive to voting. Remember that politicians wouldn't be working so hard to take away your rights to vote if it wasn't at least somewhat effective.
If there's anything that we have learned from history, it's that tyranny and oppression can be ended by simply begging and voting harder.
Tbh not like revolution has been very successful in that either
Could do some good, voting, while waiting for the revolution to happen.