Just participate in a little bourgeoisie electoralism! What's the worst that could happen? Its not like they can remove the office from existe-, oh okay yeah I guess they'll just do that.

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    No worries, I get it.

    I'm not saying that is the case here. This wasn't supposed to be a big theory post. It's a meme designed to heighten the contradictions further. I am not saying "do not ever run for office, only do direct action." I'm shit posting some Twitter garbage that boils down to the reality - you can't reform the system entirely because the system will literally attempt to remove offices from existence to protect itself.

    Personally speaking, I tend to find that most people that believe themselves leftists and focus on the electoral, tend to be at best progressives that spent too much time on r/latestagecapitalism and like the idea of voting in structural reform. Obviously that is not the rule, and probably not even the majority, but this is also only tangentially related to the post. The post doesn't mean "do not ever even look at an election or you're a bourgeoisie pig". It means "no matter what you do, they're going to change the rules".