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[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Shall I run for office? Shall I take up arms against the government? Should I abandon my family to do those things? I will have to in order to be remotely successful at either.

Start by being honest with yourself about what the problem is. That's why I raise the point that the political economy is at fault and won't be fixed by simply purging the people you see as engaging in wrongthink. Personally I organize with like-minded people and do direct actions.

The original work you quote talked a tough game:

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whatever-the-fuck-kind-of-stupid-noise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh.

which you immediately walked back:

within the specific constraints of voting and engaging in political discourse as a U.S. citizen.

If you really think that out-groups should not be getting ruled over by in-groups, then you really need to recognize that US hegemony has been the most powerful 'in-group' in history. Workers in America get paid more not because their work is more valuable but because money can flow freely over borders while people cannot. Labor aristocrats are the workers who are given a small share of the spoils from the rest of the world in exchange for their political inaction. Capitalism is wildly authoritarian and much of what you take for granted as 'constraints of US political discourse' are predicated on the US's hegemonic role within that system.

This entire line of argument seems like you're trying to pose as if you're maximally defiant against the status quo, but you also want to continue being anti-communist.

Furthermore, I believe wildcat strikes would be far more effective at dismantling the machinery of disenfranchisement, subjugation and oppression than armed revolution.

Revolutionary organizing has been far more effective, historically speaking.