What you gone do when the police state begin
Well it already began but I guess it depends
On what’s really going on what’s happening, huh
Military target practicing
They finna write another Patriot Act again
The days is short the nights is long the fight goes on
The pistol and the pipes are drawn
-Tariq Trotter aka Black Thought in Guns are Drawn by the Roots from the album The Tipping Point (emphasis mine)
Yeah, I butchered it also.
“Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront.”
Source: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/09/20.htm
I am interested in your perspective on differences between the original writing and the use of the phrase today.
Understand the difference between substantive and bourgeois democracy, read history and theory, join a communist party, engage in direct aid for their immediate community, start a bail fund for their community if they have money, maybe start a library of things if they have a bunch of old, usable stuff, etc… There’s tons of things to do, but they’re hard to do while throwing up your hands and quitting before you’ve started.
Not voting does not give your vote to anyone. It gives your vote to the “did not vote” column, the current undefeated champion of us elections. Do you libs even hear yourselves?
Yes, you are wrong. You are also parroting Marco Rubio with the false allegations against Delcy Rodríguez. So, not just wrong but wrong, dishonest, arrogant, and gullible.
Please go back to keeping your mouth shut.
And you can tell by the way that it is, unironically.
Wow. I see the first four or five things you mentioned as the primary enablers of “this sort of thing,” if by that you mean the theft of resources and destabilization of governance in the global south.
Please don’t apologize. I was going more for the “social democracy is the left wing of fascism” point. I was thinking of the sides of the coin as being the ideologies of each, not necessarily their version of the propaganda in the meme. I particularly enjoyed the way you reiterated your point in the paragraph beginning “How this relates”
“We can do this nicely” reeks of the “negative peace which is the absence of tension” which MLK wrote about in the Birmingham jail letter. If by “doing this nicely” you mean unarmed, nonviolent protest, then the jury is still very much out on whether that can achieve meaningful change. Also, do you believe in civil disobedience? That is, does your version of “doing this nicely” preclude breaking unjust laws? If so, you will achieve nothing.
ARMED protest specifically in the civil rights movement. The Black Panthers were strategically competent in taking advantage of open carry laws. Those laws still exist in certain areas of the country and absolutely should be taken advantage of if any protest movement is to be taken seriously. I mean, this is still baby talk. It does not even rise to civil disobedience since it is within the law.
Majority rule? What the hell is that? In the us? WHAT?! Most people are working class, so majority rule would be socialism by definition. Your comment is a very strange false dilemma. Reform or revolution is an interesting question, but you’ve basically dismissed it outright in your second bullet point by misrepresenting revolutionary theory.
Yeah protesting only how the rich and powerful will allow you to will get you nowhere.
Civil disobedience can work to an extent when the enemy has a conscience or is supported by subsections of the population with a conscience, but it requires breaking unjust laws. I am beginning to think liberals would rather die than do so. Further, the enemy has no conscience.
Wow. It takes a lot of arrogance to spout off unsubstantiated bullshit, ignore all direct questions and requests for clarification, and then tell the coherent interlocutors they are simply ignorant which is clearly projection.
I hope you grow to a point where you can look back on this comment and appreciate what a word salad it is.
The post does not go into kill counts as a direct comparison. It simply states that the us will be remembered as worse than nazi germany. So no, that is not the reason. I’m calling out your behavior specifically as problematic.
“They went into hiding or ran away.”
Yeah, they ran away to POSITIONS OF POWER. Just like the American Confederacy, the defeated belligerent was not sufficiently snuffed out after the official victory.
Yes that makes sense. The premises are too shaky for the argument to be sound despite the valid structure (which the commenter did not use and I pulled out of my ass).
I was mainly writing it out as an exercise to myself but left it because it kinda worked as a joke lol
I do very much appreciate an earnest answer.
Democratic Socialism will not be the norm because the Democratic party will not allow that to happen. What about recent party history gives you hope that this could occur? I find this hope to be naive.
Alright. Privilege is still relative. Being defensive is not going to change that.
The fear of “sticking your neck out” is still very individualistic thinking. The goal is to learn and organize so WE can stick our necks out together. My lionizing of former martyrs is not an attempt to shame you. I still think that “don’t be like the people who actually induced change because they were martyred” is a terrible take.
Those polls select from us adults who are registered democrats. What makes you think the party elites give a shit what they think? I know it’s not past precedent. Democrats typically use polling to justify not changing things. The way they fought Mamdani clearly demonstrates this. One anomalous Mamdani cannot reasonably justify hope in electoral reform. Capital will do all it can to extinguish Socialism as it always does. This system was made by and for capitalists and cannot be used as the sole means of establishing a socialist system.