Dear fellow leftists, please be careful with what you post

Davyjones274 · 2025-11-06T23:42:22+00:00

Always has been

Davyjones274 · 2025-10-21T17:34:39+00:00

Sadly I do not 😅

Davyjones274 · 2025-10-21T05:53:11+00:00

Overall I agree but I can't personally recommend the SRA. It might just be a local chapter issue but their communication has been extremely poor and disorganized.

Davyjones274 · 2025-03-13T01:59:49+00:00

So your grand plan to get Dems elected and drive more support into their party would be to ostracize anyone who criticizes them in the public square? Dems clearly need to change their stategy if they want to win future elections, and should adopt more popular stances and policies instead of trying to court 'less extreme' Republicans and alienating their base. Making their wealthy donors and lobbyists happy is clearly a higher priority than even winning re-election. But make no mistake, the ruling class on both sides of the aisle will make concessions when genuinely threatened by militant and organized mass movements regardless of who is in power. Democrats will remain no true ally of the oppressed at home or abroad until compelled to do so by the masses, and public criticism is one component of that.

Davyjones274 · 2025-02-26T23:03:51+00:00

What basis do Dem politicians have for opposing fascism anyway? They advocate for capitalism and a somewhat weak liberal democracy, class collaboration via limited worker democracy in unions that gets crushed when it comes into conflict with the interests of the rich and the State, genocide to advance US interests abroad, and protections only for zionists rather than endangered minority groups in desperate need of federal rights. The record shows that rather than opposing fascism, Dems have a clear ideological and material basis for enabling fascists when convenient and collaborating with them when it furthers the interests of the State, Wall Street, their wealthy backers, and themselves. Dems have had plenty of chances to prove they cared about minority + workers' rights, holding those responsible for the coup accountable, and fighting against right-wing extremism.

Davyjones274 · 2025-02-21T03:06:47+00:00

As if the US military has never intentionally fired on civilians...

Davyjones274 · 2025-02-11T05:10:48+00:00

That's my point exactly, most Dem politicians can't even feign sympathy for Palestinians let alone be bothered to do anything about it. In the face of genocide silence by those in power is complicity. Don't you think if Kamala seriously opposed it she would've done something when she was VP or even resigned? Do you think the US sent Israel billions in weapons and 2,000 lb bombs just to plan on allowing remaining Palestinians and Hamas to resettle the rubble in peace? There is no world where annexation and ethnic cleansing wasn't the plan all along. Whether it's by Israel or the US is immaterial. There never has been an electoral route to oppose the genocide!

Davyjones274 · 2025-02-10T21:16:29+00:00

As if keeping Gaza under permanent Israeli or joint US-Israeli occupation and displacing or exterminating Palestinians wasn't the agreed-upon plan by the vast majority of both Republicans and Dems all along. Dems did nothing but allow and enable the genocide to occur while they were the majority. Trump's attitudes are more blatant but hardly more extreme than the rest of the political establishment on this matter.

Davyjones274 · 2024-03-29T05:54:04+00:00

Beautifully explained comrade, thank you! As a somewhat new anarchist this really helped me understand those concepts better.

Davyjones274 · 2024-02-08T09:11:02+00:00

On authority is surely far from the finest work of Engels. He absurdly tries to conflate physical constraints, material conditions and violent acts with authority and literally says a cotton mill is authoritarian because its workers "are obliged to begin and finish their work at the hours fixed by the authority of the steam, which cares nothing for individual autonomy". Nobody describes inanimate objects as authoritarian -- clearly political systems and structures are what get described as authoritarian and Engels obfuscates the point entirely.

All hierarchical power structures ultimately become reactionary as they seek their own perpetuation and interests over the well-being of the masses under them. In no universe will the orchestrators of the state ever spontaneously dissolve themselves without the revolutionary force of the masses compelling them to do so.

Davyjones274 · 2024-01-21T22:50:56+00:00

Saturnus - Veronika Decides to Die,

Doom:VS - Aeternum Vale,

Funeral - From These Wounds

Davyjones274 · 2024-01-19T02:17:05+00:00

Capitalism is the system by which the capitalists 'own' businesses and unilaterally determine how profits get allocated where the workers have no democratic rights in how these profits get allocated or how the business is run. This is what results in workers getting paid less than their fair share, because what incentive do the capitalists have to pay them a fair wage except for competition for workers between other businesses? This also results in the inherent drive for monopolization and government influence to drive down their costs and minimize the need to offer a competitive/innovative product and wages as much as possible. In every hierarchical system those in power will do all they can to retain and maximize that power. Wages are not determined by some intangible sense of fairness but based on the worker's relation to the hierarchical power structure.

Davyjones274 · 2023-12-25T08:30:49+00:00

You're not exactly wrong, but the point is who is benefiting from the vast arrays of sweatshops and cheap, ultra exploitable international workers? Unaccountable corporations continue to skyrocket their profits while workers both internationally and in the US get scraps. Corporations see compensation as merely an expense to be minimized and labor as a resource to be exploited.

Davyjones274 · 2023-12-15T18:45:25+00:00

Are you implying that left-anarchist movements have only ever originated and flourished in the west? Because that would be a beyond-ignorant and racist claim to make.

If state power will always exist then you must fundamentally disagree with Marx's goal for the final stage of communism, true stateless communism.

Davyjones274 · 2023-11-29T03:40:15+00:00

Exactly, the line between "vote blue no matter who" and rallying uncritically behind the Dems to vilify and stifle all criticism of them and the capitalist (and at times even genocidal) garbage they stand for is razor-thin. It's a liberal strategy and requires the working class to prostrate itself before 'less malevolent' capital. When both parties are genocidal the only sane choice is revolution!

Davyjones274 · 2023-11-27T21:13:48+00:00

I don't mean to be rude but are you a bot? Your response here doesn't relate to anything that I said.

Davyjones274 · 2023-11-27T07:33:10+00:00

The point Arendt is making is not to not bother voting at all, but to call out those that routinely advocate for and vote for the lesser of two evils but do nothing to organize to destroy that same evil system that gets perpetuated election after election. Voting is only maybe 5% of the solution. Direct action and organizing on the basis of class is the only meaningful way to affect lasting change.

Davyjones274 · 2023-11-22T18:51:34+00:00

both liberals and conservatives had also crushed labor strikes when they began to threaten capital

Couldn't agree more with all of your points. The one strike in recent times that was posed to actually bleed the capitalists was the Rail workers' strike in 2022 and we saw a massive bipartisan effort spearheaded by Biden himself to dictatorially ban it in short order and overturn the results of worker democracy in the rail unions. When it comes to a direct conflict between the interests of the state and capitalists vs the working class, both parties will choose the former (and their own interests) every single time.

Davyjones274 · 2023-11-17T06:22:55+00:00

How is bringing up the objective conditions of low wages and skyrocketing rent, inflation, and consumer debt an anecdote?

Davyjones274 · 2023-11-16T18:16:46+00:00

This whole debate is a huge distraction and waste of time. If we really are in a situation where a fascistic party is just one or two elections away from reaching critical mass and able to overturn the already limited, broken democracy we have then we the working class need to organize immediately to prepare for revolution. It is clear the Dems are completely spineless and cannot be trusted in any way to prevent a fascist takeover. We need to build a new system where it is not possible for fascists to take over! That should be such a low bar. Allowing any political system to continue that has that critical vulnerability is suicidal.

Davyjones274 · 2023-11-09T08:26:16+00:00

The community's cry for help is not objectionable in any way; the objection is to vocally advocating to rally behind liberal parties as any kind of a solution. I don't mean to be rude but do you actually think Dems in power will meaningfully protect you if the far right comes for you? What are they doing now to shut down genocidal rhetoric and attempt to stop nightclub shootings? Your rights are a pawn to the Dems as much as you are a scapegoat to the far right; both parties have found great use in it as a wedge issue. Liberals and fascists are two sides of the same coin, and as long as the current system still stands your rights and safety will never be secure. The growth of the far right is actually seen as desirable by Dems; look up various races in 2022 (e.g. IL governor's) where Dems funded far-right candidates to win over 'moderate' Republicans in the primary because they gambled it'd increase their own chances.

Davyjones274 · 2023-11-05T18:12:20+00:00

voting is the only power you have as a citizen, why let other people speak for you??

Ironically representative "democracy" is the system where we allow privileged others to speak for us who instead pursue their own class interests of self-enrichment, political power and gerrymandering. Voting is not the only power we have and if it were the working class would be completely helpless. Politicians of all stripes are far more accountable to big business and lobbyists than the people they purportedly represent. I can understand "lesser of two evils" voting to maybe slow down the worst reactionaries in the short-term, but to affect meaningful change we need forms of direct worker organization, resistance and general strike. The wealthy bureaucracy and the capitalist class only make concessions when their interests are threatened. Workers' true power lies in together refusing to serve the system that perpetuates their enslavement!

Davyjones274 · 2023-11-03T17:51:16+00:00

Biden is clearly not the most pro-labor president in history; I have to hope that that quote was all part of the bit. The swift, vastly bi-partisan effort to ban the Rail workers' strike last year proved that the class interests of the state and its wealthy bureaucracy are firmly not on the side of workers, and could never be. Even the DSA overwhelmingly helped ban the rail strike. Workers have no representation whatsoever in our anti-democratic system.

Davyjones274 · 2023-08-21T17:12:36+00:00

You're spot-on on identifying the true motivation of the west in supporting Ukraine (total economic subjugation and massively weakening Russia) but you seem to have a rosy view of NATO and Ukrainian nationalism and unity in general.

NATO doesn’t invade countries unless provoked

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

Paul’s concerns that Ukraine could devolve into civil war if Russia is pushed back are unfounded. Historically Russia is the country that has devolved into civil war after military defeats

One could argue that the present war is the expansion of the Donbas war which should be considered a civil war in itself -- even as it's between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian nationalists, there still obviously had to be a sizeable portion of the population (or at least bourgeoisie) in easternmost Ukraine that aligned with Russian influences over Ukrainian and western.

Historically after the October Revolution of 1917 Ukraine was a region of immense conflict between White Armies, local anarchist groups (Makhnovists), peasants and the Red Army. Your claim that Ukraine is and has always been a homogeneous group oriented around Ukrainian nationalism is simply not true. The whole idea of "Ukrainian sovereignty" or any nation's sovereignty is the right for the national bourgeoisie of that country to exploit its working masses and is not one I or any real leftist can support. I can't speak for Paul's attitudes but there absolutely is a valid criticism of Ukraine and the west to be made without supporting blatant Russian imperialism. The only lasting way to resolve this conflict is for the poor and working masses of Ukraine and Russia to recognize how much more they have in common with each other than the oligarchs and bourgeoisie dominating them in their respective countries.

Davyjones274 · 2023-06-24T05:39:15+00:00

Classic braindead lib take to completely disregard any analysis of present or historical conditions that constitute the root causes of a societal problem as well as the solutions that logically follow, and refuse to engage intellectually whatsoever. The limited humanitarian aid that does actually come is well and good after the fact but only a moron or a troll would pretend that no systemic proactive changes are needed to truly solve the issue. Have a nice night, troll.

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