Pragmatic Leftist Theory

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The neolibs are too far right. The tankies are doing whatever that is. Where's the space for the people who want fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism, but realize that it's gonna take a while and there are lots of steps between now and then? Here. This is that space.

Here, people should endeavor to discuss and devise practical, actionable leftist action. Vote lesser evil while you build grassroots coalitions. Unionize your workplace. Participate in SRAs. Build cohesion your local community. Educate the proletariat.

This is a place for practical people to develop practical plans to implement stable, incremental improvement.

If you're dead-set on drumming up all 18,453 True Leftists® into spontaneous Revolution, go somewhere else. The grown ups are talking.

Rules:

-1. Don't be a dick. Racism, sexism, other assorted bigotries, you know the drill. At least try to default to mutually respectful discussion. We're all on the same side here, unless you aren't, in which case kindly leave.

-2. Don't be a tankie. Yes I'm sure you have an extensive knowledge of century-old theory. There's been a century of history since then. Things didn't shake out as expected, maybe consider the possibility that a different angle of attack might be more effective in light of new data.

-3. Be practical. No one on the left benefits from counterproductive actions. This is a space informed by, not enslaved to, ideology. Promoting actions that are fundamentally untenable in the system in question, because they fulfill a sense of ideological purity, is a bad look. Don't do that.

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No time to plan guys, just take to the streets (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

if we ignore all the great things you did on record, we are right.

The government announcing that unemployment is ended and conveniently unemployment insurance no longer needs to be paid out without letting anyone verify this is not 'on record', but I understand that a fascist bootlicker like you has trouble discerning reality from their favorite pleather sole.

no dude, left punching is when you blindly repeat western red-scare propaganda

Imagine saying this while repeating the literal Stalinist government line that has long been disproven both by Western sources and studies of the Soviet archives.

or when you have to go back 100 years to the midst of the eastern front of ugliest war in recorded history just so you can punch left over and over again, not unlike fascists do today.

Imagine denying genocide, and then saying denying genocide doesn't matter because it was 80 years ago, at the height of the 'socialism' of the anti-proletariat red fascist polity you're defending.

You'd have to be some kind of Nazi to be that deep into bootlicking.