The practical end result of Vaush’s shit is to vote scold people. It’s to continue endless entryism into the Democratic party no matter what the circumstance. It fails to engage with many broader questions e.g. the question of whether or not the immediate priority should instead be to build other forms of power independently of any one existing political party, the viability of entryism into an existing party whos own institutions are explicitly dominated by the interests of capital, and the fact that most candidates are not communists, but some brand of social democrat (if that even) that Vaush himself cites as the kind that would be shit on by Lenin.
yeah so not voting democrat then trump has 4 more years and he'll arrest and/or shoot antifa and they get life sentences. Good work, lenin would be proud.
Vaush takes general statements about involvement in elections for agitation and seeking to secure power precisely on the basis of being an explicitly pro-working class party, and butchers them into “You gotta vote for Biden”.
you can't have pro-working class parties in the US, there will always only be two viable parties until the electoral system is changed. Imagine voting for a third party and some rando asks you why and then they'll just say that this party will forever just take votes from the more progressive party of the two large ones and ergo result in more power for conservatives and fascists. Like I understand what lenin is trying to achieve but that's not viable in the US.
yeah so not voting democrat then trump has 4 more years and he’ll arrest and/or shoot antifa and they get life sentences. Good work, lenin would be proud.
I do not give 2 fucking shits about individualistic, moralistic vote scolding, even less about attempting to use Marx, Engles and Lenin to do it. It's meaningless. Fixating on "Bernie or Busters" is literally a repeat of 2016 bullshit which didn't even come to fruition the first time around but was still used as a convenient excuse by millionaire consultants who failed to campaign in key states. How do you not realise this yet. Waste your time scolding people on Reddit or chapo.chat to vote for Biden, it won't mean anything in the face of the USPS being fucking dismantled to make mail in voting impossible as in-person voting stations are also shut down. Vote scolding has absolutely nothing to do with socialist agitation or building a movement. If you give a shit, join the Biden campaign and turn them into Marxists. If you don't, continue fruitlessly and powerlessly admonishing people on chapo.chat, the place that will definitely clinch the fucking election single handedly. Whether or not you individually vote Biden has absolutely no real meaning to any kind of socialist project. The democratic election campaign will be whatever it will be. It's in the hands of well paid consultants, lobbyists, and democratic party leadership to get Biden elected. It will be those choices that will be actually meaningful as to whether Biden wins. They're the ones calling the shots. They're the ones deciding where the ad buys go, buying voter information to micro-target texts, and who will be in the cabinet. Being obsessed with a tiny cadre of "Tankies" like Vaush is not only useless, it's actively harmful, assuming Vaush is in any way actively, meaningfully involved in any campaigning. Has he started texting for Biden? Is he going to risk COVID and go doorknocking?
You can’t have pro-working class parties in the US, there will always only be two viable parties until the electoral system is changed.
Labour party was a third party in a first past the post system, until it wasn't. The 2 dominant parties were liberal and conservative. The Labour party only came to prominence shortly before WWII. Just recently, UKIP/Brexit party were threatening enough of the vote share and seats to make them just as if not more significant than the Lib Dems, another 3rd party.
Imagine voting for a third party and some rando asks you why and then they’ll just say that this party will forever just take votes from the more progressive party of the two large ones and ergo result in more power for conservatives and fascists. Like I understand what lenin is trying to achieve but that’s not viable in the US.
Libertarian party is bigger than Greens and Trump still won. Stop giving a shit about vote scolding people. Actually seek to build a long term strategy around building independent working class power, not short term capitulations. Run PSL candidates at the local levels first and build a party from there. Literally Bernies entry into politics was as an independent.
yeah so not voting democrat then trump has 4 more years and he'll arrest and/or shoot antifa and they get life sentences. Good work, lenin would be proud.
you can't have pro-working class parties in the US, there will always only be two viable parties until the electoral system is changed. Imagine voting for a third party and some rando asks you why and then they'll just say that this party will forever just take votes from the more progressive party of the two large ones and ergo result in more power for conservatives and fascists. Like I understand what lenin is trying to achieve but that's not viable in the US.
I do not give 2 fucking shits about individualistic, moralistic vote scolding, even less about attempting to use Marx, Engles and Lenin to do it. It's meaningless. Fixating on "Bernie or Busters" is literally a repeat of 2016 bullshit which didn't even come to fruition the first time around but was still used as a convenient excuse by millionaire consultants who failed to campaign in key states. How do you not realise this yet. Waste your time scolding people on Reddit or chapo.chat to vote for Biden, it won't mean anything in the face of the USPS being fucking dismantled to make mail in voting impossible as in-person voting stations are also shut down. Vote scolding has absolutely nothing to do with socialist agitation or building a movement. If you give a shit, join the Biden campaign and turn them into Marxists. If you don't, continue fruitlessly and powerlessly admonishing people on chapo.chat, the place that will definitely clinch the fucking election single handedly. Whether or not you individually vote Biden has absolutely no real meaning to any kind of socialist project. The democratic election campaign will be whatever it will be. It's in the hands of well paid consultants, lobbyists, and democratic party leadership to get Biden elected. It will be those choices that will be actually meaningful as to whether Biden wins. They're the ones calling the shots. They're the ones deciding where the ad buys go, buying voter information to micro-target texts, and who will be in the cabinet. Being obsessed with a tiny cadre of "Tankies" like Vaush is not only useless, it's actively harmful, assuming Vaush is in any way actively, meaningfully involved in any campaigning. Has he started texting for Biden? Is he going to risk COVID and go doorknocking?
Labour party was a third party in a first past the post system, until it wasn't. The 2 dominant parties were liberal and conservative. The Labour party only came to prominence shortly before WWII. Just recently, UKIP/Brexit party were threatening enough of the vote share and seats to make them just as if not more significant than the Lib Dems, another 3rd party.
Libertarian party is bigger than Greens and Trump still won. Stop giving a shit about vote scolding people. Actually seek to build a long term strategy around building independent working class power, not short term capitulations. Run PSL candidates at the local levels first and build a party from there. Literally Bernies entry into politics was as an independent.