The image is a meme featuring scenes from an animated show. It is divided into three panels:  1. Top Left Panel: Two characters are sitting in a red vehicle. The character in the passenger seat is wearing a red cap and sunglasses. The driver is looking out the window, and a third person is visible in the back seat. Text reads, "Is this the liberal death cult?"  2. Top Right Panel: A school bus is shown with a blonde character standing near it. The text says, "We're not a death cult. We just want to defeat fascism by maintaining the system that inevitably leads to it."  3. Bottom Panel: The same two characters from the first panel are in the vehicle. The character in the passenger seat looks forward, while the driver is looking at him. Text reads, "YEAH, THIS IS IT."
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago

No, I wouldn't, explicitly because of the nuanced differences between leftist ideology and the right-wing, neoliberalist establishment that make them fundamentally oppositional. Their interests as owning class citizens means they have fundamentally vested interests that are diametrically oppositional to our interests as working class, and will never truly change beyond offering mild concessions to prevent systemic collapse. If we want left wing progress, it won't be from within the current party. We need a fundamentally new party that actually holds the interests of the working class at priority.

Though, personally, as an anarchist, I do not believe change will come from within the system. It is structurally designed to force internal actors to capitulate to the interests of the economy, essentially tying their interests to the strength of the capitalist economy as a means to strengthen or maintain their own political power once in a seat if authority. Thus, will never be allowed through internal means to exert the will of the working class.

That isn't to say we shouldn't build dual power to protect our interests, just that our focus should be at local and state level, not the federal. It doesn't matter what the federal agency does or says, they still have to be able to enforce their rule. If the local communities are banded together so that when push comes to shove, we can actually do some shoving of our own, they won't be able to enforce their authority over us.

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