That’s a huge uphill battle, it’s outright banned in 17 states. Yes, we absolutely should be doing everything within our power to drum up positive interest, but absolute best case scenario it’s going to take several election cycles. We still need to make viable plans for the interim.
That’s not a bad analogy actually: advocating third parties is like insisting we dive deeper down the cave, while everyone else insists it’s time to go back up. I’m not sure it’s useless bickering, we’re all tied together and the guy in the meme is endangering us all.
I don’t accept that. You clearly know nothing of the social/working movements of the early 1900s. The hallmark progressive achievenments made in this country, many that still exist today (to varying degrees ofc) were a result of literal blood, sweat and tears from third parties.
The Progressive Party led by Roosevelt, The Bull Moose Party with social reformers like Jane Addams and Florence Kelly, the Socialist Party of Eugene Debs… all of these were most prominent in fighting for and ultimately producing a cluster of social welfare, social insurance reforms, women’s suffrage, workers rights/5 day work week, etc.
It was the dedication, pressure and will to not fall in line trying to change the two-party duopoly from within but to build their own movements, their own coalitions on the outside, and thus the mainstream parties were eventually forced to inscribe the populus demands into legislation.
Healthy third parties are a good thing. It builds actual pressure on your legislators. Politicians wont work on your behalf when they know you’re voting for them anyway — they’re lining their pockets with money from the bourgeois they actually legislate for. Seeking the change you wish to see via third party can and has produced monumental value for the working class.
But sure continue spelunking and misplacing your frustrations on your fellow worker instead of holding your desired candidate/party accountable for their bs offering. We’ll keep climbing that hill in the meantime.
Got it, you don’t actually think bickering is useless, you just want the people who disagree with you, even partially, to shut up. Very cool.
You clearly know nothing of the social/working movements of the early 1900s.
Why would that be relevant? That was a century ago. The world is different, people are different, there’s been a century of anti-left propaganda. It’s a fundamentally different situation. You can’t keep trying to use the 19th century playbook on the 21st. Update your models homie.
False. I never suggested bickering as a whole is useless. Sometimes it’s helpful to inform others, like I just did for you. You’re welcome.
And the fact that you willfully dismiss the invaluable lessons of the past, particularly with regards to class struggle, tells me all I need to know — as if a century is a long time ago, I have grandparents still alive born from that time period ha. Neglect history, continue to wander aimlessly.
So is everyone you accuse of bickering. We’re informing you. That is the most basic premise of dialectics. Without the discussion of thesis and antithesis, there is no synthesis. When one party “informs” another and expects them to accept the thesis uncritically, that is autocracy.
I never neglected the lessons of the past, but they are most relevant to the conditions that produced them. You are neglecting all the history that happened in between. I spent a lot of time with my great grandmother born in 1915. The world is a very different place. We can’t keep dusting off grandma’s praxis.
You are also neglecting the most basic premise of materialism: align your actions to the actual conditions, not idealism. Continue to neglect materialism for idealism, and you will wander aimlessly.
That’s a huge uphill battle, it’s outright banned in 17 states. Yes, we absolutely should be doing everything within our power to drum up positive interest, but absolute best case scenario it’s going to take several election cycles. We still need to make viable plans for the interim.
If that’s an uphill battle then this useless bickering is a pitch black spelunking
That’s not a bad analogy actually: advocating third parties is like insisting we dive deeper down the cave, while everyone else insists it’s time to go back up. I’m not sure it’s useless bickering, we’re all tied together and the guy in the meme is endangering us all.
I don’t accept that. You clearly know nothing of the social/working movements of the early 1900s. The hallmark progressive achievenments made in this country, many that still exist today (to varying degrees ofc) were a result of literal blood, sweat and tears from third parties.
The Progressive Party led by Roosevelt, The Bull Moose Party with social reformers like Jane Addams and Florence Kelly, the Socialist Party of Eugene Debs… all of these were most prominent in fighting for and ultimately producing a cluster of social welfare, social insurance reforms, women’s suffrage, workers rights/5 day work week, etc.
It was the dedication, pressure and will to not fall in line trying to change the two-party duopoly from within but to build their own movements, their own coalitions on the outside, and thus the mainstream parties were eventually forced to inscribe the populus demands into legislation.
Healthy third parties are a good thing. It builds actual pressure on your legislators. Politicians wont work on your behalf when they know you’re voting for them anyway — they’re lining their pockets with money from the bourgeois they actually legislate for. Seeking the change you wish to see via third party can and has produced monumental value for the working class.
But sure continue spelunking and misplacing your frustrations on your fellow worker instead of holding your desired candidate/party accountable for their bs offering. We’ll keep climbing that hill in the meantime.
Got it, you don’t actually think bickering is useless, you just want the people who disagree with you, even partially, to shut up. Very cool.
Why would that be relevant? That was a century ago. The world is different, people are different, there’s been a century of anti-left propaganda. It’s a fundamentally different situation. You can’t keep trying to use the 19th century playbook on the 21st. Update your models homie.
False. I never suggested bickering as a whole is useless. Sometimes it’s helpful to inform others, like I just did for you. You’re welcome.
And the fact that you willfully dismiss the invaluable lessons of the past, particularly with regards to class struggle, tells me all I need to know — as if a century is a long time ago, I have grandparents still alive born from that time period ha. Neglect history, continue to wander aimlessly.
Lol @ homie. Have a nice day
So is everyone you accuse of bickering. We’re informing you. That is the most basic premise of dialectics. Without the discussion of thesis and antithesis, there is no synthesis. When one party “informs” another and expects them to accept the thesis uncritically, that is autocracy.
I never neglected the lessons of the past, but they are most relevant to the conditions that produced them. You are neglecting all the history that happened in between. I spent a lot of time with my great grandmother born in 1915. The world is a very different place. We can’t keep dusting off grandma’s praxis.
You are also neglecting the most basic premise of materialism: align your actions to the actual conditions, not idealism. Continue to neglect materialism for idealism, and you will wander aimlessly.
You’re full of fallacies and just talking nonsense at this point. Again, have a nice day.
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who banned it 🤔
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
That’s an awful lot of southern states. Iowa surprises me because that legalized same sex marriage before a lot of other states
Fancy that, it’s like the post was right.
If it doesn’t happen now, many self-proclaimed ‘leftists’ aren’t interested.
Apparently the 60+ years of groundwork leading up the Russian Revolution just aren’t interesting enough for them.
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