Post #541034
2026-03-05 17:55 UTC
Electoralism cannot get change. I’ve explained how and why, and you have not explained why you think, for the first time in history, we can get meaningful change via electoralism.
And because you don’t show up in anycase you won’t get change either.
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-03-05 18:04
No, I absolutely show up, to protests, organizing, and other real-life methods of gaining real change and growing organizational power. It’s not that voting doesn’t work because Marxists don’t vote, it’s that Marxists don’t emphasize voting because we know it doesn’t work.
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@QinShiHuangsShlong__dup_67153@lemmy.ml 2026-03-05 18:17
The so-called democratic system in modern states is usually monopolized by the bourgeoisie and has become simply an instrument for oppressing the common people. Chairman Mao pushing the people to voting the Japanese imperialists and KMT fascists off the mainland: Political power grows from the ballot box or something