slackbastard(Dr) Joseph Toscano, a token anarchist (Anarchist Media Institute) candidate at the Victorian state election in the safe Labor seat of Mulgrave, has thus far won 121 votes (0.5%) and placed 10th of 14 candidates. The Victorian Socialists (with a membership mostly derived from neo-Trotskyist groupuscule 'Socialist Alternative', Australia's largest 'far' left political formation) has done tolerably well (gaining b/w 8 and 10% in some seats) and certainly scoring better -- w more candidates -- than 2018's effort.
Phlawless@slackbastard What I am finding most interesting about the VS post-election hype is that they're taking credit for the relative failure of the "cooker" vote. In other words: "we got to working-class people vulnerable to a fascist message and gave them a positive anti-establishment alternative". I'm not sure I'm convinced but this is a new argument for revsoc electoralism that needs chewing on.
@daphlawless well, filling a political vacuum is mos def a thing, and it's poss that some workers alienated by #dictatordan and seeing only cookers as oppositional forces could've swapped their vote for VS upon exposure to their juicy discourse ... but at first glance it seems the drop in first pref votes for libs partly manifested as support for cookers / the reduction in the labor vote went to Greens or VS. in footscrazy, where jorge jorquera currently has just under 10%, there was a swing vs labor of just over that amount
@slackbastard Mmm. That fits with my personal experience of far-Left electoralism, that they always tell themselves that they're not cannibalising the Labour/Green vote, but "appealing to the forgotten working class", non-voters or fash/cooker voters. Citation, as they say, needed.