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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4134651

American bourgeois democracy

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Syndicalism is literally siezing the means, it isn't reform. What do you think Revolution is? Bombing everyone?

Biden being less terrible doesn't make him a force for good.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Biden being less terrible doesn’t make him a force for good.

No, but him being adequate to not dragging leftists out behind the barn and having them shot is a necessary basis for any sort of improvement.

What do you think Revolution is? Bombing everyone?

Bombing everyone seems inefficient to the goal, which in a revolution is overthrow of the existing order. I'm not aware of any peaceful overthrowings of existing orders, can you point to some?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Depends on what you consider peaceful, I suppose.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What would you say was the least violent revolution that succeeded, by whatever metrics you use for those words?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Depends. The Russian Revolution was fairly bloodless, and overthrew the Monarchy. The USSR obviously had a whole slew of different issues, but was dramatically better than the Monarchy.

How do you think Electoralism could achieve genuine change?