Mods please delete if you don't want these AITA/doomer type posts.

I am a distant observer of Row Vs Wade and the fight for abortion but it seems the Hand Maid Tail cosplays and quirky signs I've seen the last ten years haven't worked. They just most people not 110% invested these things are just cringe . It just feels like it feeds into the :vote: spectacle when nothing threatens those in power.

One side will threaten a federal law against abortion. The other side will use this to perpetually raise funds and get votes. Some cops might go to jail where they will be protected by neo-nazi gangs. But it won't long until they and their new friends are pardoned by the next president and made into death squads. And it won't change anything about policing.

They have strategically carved up to electorate so it doesn't matter that two thirds of the voters wants body autonomy. They are not afraid of protesters storming the capital which has clearly played into their hands. Instead the protests are an opportunity for the police to fulfill their sadistic fantasies of blinding, deafening and crippling the people they hate most. Or grifters who proclaiming "the left have gone too far" because some windows got smashed in to keep the docile from joining in. And of course right wing terrorists.

Focus on survival, organization and developing a coherent mass line that will erode faith in bourgeois democracy from within.

  • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    It's pretty obvious the existing protests won't go anywhere because most of them are led by Planned Parenthood's political wing, a major apparatus of the Democratic party. We should still attend and agitate at them because large gatherings of politicized people are ripe for agitation, but it's not going to be the revolution.

    A revolutionary approach to protest requires discipline and organization on a scale that really doesn't exist in the US. It seems like it's developing a little bit and it's our job to politicize that development so that when the time actually comes we can lead protests instead of petty bourgeois Democrats.

    • chlooooooooooooo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      We should still attend and agitate at them because large gatherings of politicized people are ripe for agitation

      this is the crucial point regarding our own behaviour. regardless of whether a protest is "too lib" or whatever, a lot of the people there are going to be angry and politically under-educated, and that means having a presence there to propagandise to them is important. that's the first step towards making the pro-abortion movement more militant and less lib.