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[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's the opposite, actually.

The people who talk about "tax the rich" or the New Deal don't actually do anything, they are armchair activists who have no real idea of how they would ever accomplish this outside of pretending the Democratic Party, which constantly opposes them and crushes such ideas, is the vehiclr, and the way to make it happen is complaining on the internet.

Communists know that actually addressing our collective problems is a much more difficult task, nothing less than the overthrow of capitalism, something that would need to survive attempts at cooption by liberal power structures like the aforementioned party. So we build from the ground up, educating one another and developing practice so that we can balance growth, education, and having impact through actions. We go to the meetings, we run the meetings, we teach one another, we organize the protests and marches, we build the strategic mutual aid events, we embed with workers' spaces and unions, we embed with and build from within the marginalized so as to be of them. Communist organizing is adding a part-time job on top of your other obligations.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, we should definitely not have something like Sweden or the old New Deal. We should let children grow up in poverty, let old people suffer, and let the planet burn while we sit around discussing Trotsky and the Second International in hopes that the revolution will come.

iirc de La Cruz got less than 100,000 votes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, we should definitely not have something like Sweden or the old New Deal.

I think you need to refamiliarize yourself with what I said, as this is not it.

We should let children grow up in poverty, let old people suffer, and let the planet burn while we sit around discussing Trotsky and the Second International in hopes that the revolution will come.

I said something that is the exact opposite of sitting around, actually. Do your best to read a little more carefully before sharing opinions.

iirc de La Cruz got less than 100,000 votes.

And?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Keep on arguing on the interwebs.

Maybe someone will notice.

Maybe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Do you think you're doing something else?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I do stuff offline.

All you guys ever do is argue. Name one thing you guys have done in America in the last 50 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago (1 children)

You ever heard of the Black Panthers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

lol!

You mean the tiny group that served some free meals in a few cities and got wiped out by the police?

The one that had a leader [Eldrige Cleaver] who considered rape as a political act?

Meanwhile Obama's ACA gave health coverage to 45 million people.

I'll stick with the people who actually get things done.