• Archangel1313@lemmy.caBanned from community
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    14 hours ago

    The party is not an autonomous entity, with its own thoughts and intentions. The people in it, are. If you change the people, you change the party. If the majority of those people propose and vote for different legislation…then the entire political direction of the party shifts.

    That isn’t “LARPing”. That’s actual power. LARPing is pretending that what you’re doing is having an impact. Passing actual laws that benefit the working class, actually does have that impact. In fact, it’s the only thing that does. Without laws to solidify a working class agenda, any progress you think you’ve made, is illegitimate.

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      13 hours ago

      Take your reform bullshit to a different space. Reform does not work, liberal voters have tried for centuries here in the US and all it’s produced are 2 right wing parties that are never held accountable.

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      The DNC derives its support and power from wealthy capitalist donors, and is entrenched in the imperialist organ of the US Empire. Legislation is not “word of God,” the superstructure of society does not have power over the base. You can see just how little laws actually matter when it comes to holding those fulfilling the will of capitalists accountable. Both the DNC and GOP have violated national and international law blatantly and repeatedly, but with little to no actual impact.

      Without political power, which stems from the base and the state in alignment, ie a monopoly on force, there is no progress. This is why revolution is necessary, not merely reforming and replacing a capitalist party with more radical elements.

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        14 hours ago

        Oh, I remember you. You’re the guy who says words without understanding their meaning. As usual, you’re already both agreeing with what I already said, while claiming I’m wrong. No thanks. I have no appetite for word salad today.

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          No idea what you’re meaning at all, nor why you think I agree with you. Reform is a dead end, revolution is necessary. This seems to run to the polar opposite of what you’re saying. No idea what you mean by me saying I “say words without understanding their meaning” nor how that’s applicable here.

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              Revolution is the overthrow of the class that controls the state and the commanding heights of the economy by another class. Labor is inherent, labor-power is commodified labor. The working classes, through revolution, sieze control of the state and the commanding heights of industry, smashing the old capitalist state and replacing it with a proletarian one.

              Revolution is the conquest of state power by a given class, legitimized through a monopoly on force and the commanding heights of the economy.