Beardy Star Stuff 🌹🏴🇵🇸1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116394127711780639

Decades of history show that the Democrats are repeatedly the party of #capitalism alongside of the Republicans. They have continued to move further right. This is not a party that actually wants to build a fair, just and equitable society or one that cares about expanding #democracy. This is a party that relies on the lack of other choices and one that will almost always support the ruling class. They rely on an a #politics & electoral system that offers no choice to bully all of us who are not a part of the ruling class, which is most of us.

The #Democrats, as a rule, are the other party of the 1%.They have no interest in fighting #fascism because they're also a party of power.

The working class of the #US will never break this cycle unless we organize and build something new to bypass this system. Working "in the system" is a trap. We've stuck in decades of refusing to try.

We need to recapture the spirit of the resistance and organizing by #labor from 1860-1930.

#Anarchism

Show threadAlison Wilder1d ago

@bss totally agree. I'm curious whether you have an opinion about whether it's best to do that via a takeover of the Democratic party, a la the Tea Party's takeover of the Republican party, or whether it's better to go a new way.

I can see advantages to both.

Show threadBeardy Star Stuff 🌹🏴🇵🇸1d ago

@alisynthesis
I'm pushing for a bottom-up take-over of the economic and political system. At a fundamental level the party system, as an electoral system and a political process of governing is not a truly democratic system. I think we all know it was never really designed to be. The aristocracy designed it not to be.

It's time for a new revolution. Doesn't have to be violent. But it does have to be us rebuilding from the bottom up. Folks like Clara Mattei who's written a book "Escape from Capitalism" are out doing this work in communities right now.

WE BUILT THIS WORLD. IT'S TIME WE UNDERSTAND THAT. IT IS OUR WORLD.

There is nothing sacred about capitalism. It's a piece of shit system based on violence and theft. So, my take, is fuck the entire thing.

We build a bottom-up labor movement, radically democratic: Community assemblies, worker-councils and so on. We shut down the old system by mass mobilizations, strike after strike after strike, rolling general strikes with no end.

Show threadAlison Wilder
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Apr 14 at 2:17pmWeb