I agree on climate change -- we're not going to be able to do electoralism fast enough to head off the worst of that. But I don't see any other realistic path that would work faster, so I think we work the angles we have now and then work new ones as they present themselves.
I think it would be fair to say that at least part of my aversion to electoralism as a viable path are the local conditions that I see. I'm in one of those progressive cities with an almost fully segregated divide between black and white city residents, to the extent that most black citizens of the area technically live in less progressive suburban areas on the periphery. So the poor is largely ghettoized and then the white progressives are incredibly racist and paternalistic in that post-civil-rights liberal way. I don't think that doxxes me unduly. I also don't see any more realistic path, but I sometimes feel like that's for lack of trying. It's hard to build any kind of new strategy when no one living remembers any tactic ever working. I'm of the mind personally that any novel answers about how to beat neocolonialism will come from outside the imperial core; I think the best goal in the imperial core is to stress the military/we're-the-good-guys contradiction in order to give revolutions a fighting chance. But I'm not out there doing praxis, so no one should really listen to me anyway :marx-hi:
I agree on climate change -- we're not going to be able to do electoralism fast enough to head off the worst of that. But I don't see any other realistic path that would work faster, so I think we work the angles we have now and then work new ones as they present themselves.
I think it would be fair to say that at least part of my aversion to electoralism as a viable path are the local conditions that I see. I'm in one of those progressive cities with an almost fully segregated divide between black and white city residents, to the extent that most black citizens of the area technically live in less progressive suburban areas on the periphery. So the poor is largely ghettoized and then the white progressives are incredibly racist and paternalistic in that post-civil-rights liberal way. I don't think that doxxes me unduly. I also don't see any more realistic path, but I sometimes feel like that's for lack of trying. It's hard to build any kind of new strategy when no one living remembers any tactic ever working. I'm of the mind personally that any novel answers about how to beat neocolonialism will come from outside the imperial core; I think the best goal in the imperial core is to stress the military/we're-the-good-guys contradiction in order to give revolutions a fighting chance. But I'm not out there doing praxis, so no one should really listen to me anyway :marx-hi: