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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is delusional. Direct action absolutely has its place, but all the things you mentioned were ultimately won at the ballot box. As it should be. Don't let a childish revolution fetish blind you to what constitutes a viable framework for lasting progress.

Edit - "Has." As in he has a ball. Or she has a textbook.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago

It's funny how libs think they can tell me when direct action is necessary, and it's always in the past tense, never in the present.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

It's funny when ML thinks they are the only leftists

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

Not an ML. And certainly don't think I'm the only leftist. Lots of different types of leftists, many I disagree with. But unless you're opposed to capitalism, then you're a liberal, not a leftist.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Liberals aren't leftists, but there's a whole world of political thought to the left of liberals.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I am a ML and everything I have seen of Jenkem's posting here makes me think they are probably a leftist.

We probably don't agree on everything, but they're no liberal.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hey now. Anarchists and Maoists and a bunch of others are leftists too.

Liberals are not.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Can you define direct action for me? What do you think it is?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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