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. Apparently polisci isn’t the only class you failed.
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.
Surely there’s no way someone from the left-libertarian continuum would ever claim that Leninist traditions are not steeped in autocratic proclivities.
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. Apparently polisci isn’t the only class you failed.
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.
It’s funny when ML thinks they are the only leftists
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.
Surely there’s no way someone from the left-libertarian continuum would ever claim that Leninist traditions are not steeped in autocratic proclivities.
Yup, like I said, lots of leftists I disagree with. That includes ML’s. What’s your point exactly?
My point is that I got you confused for a different poster. Please accept my deepest apologies.
All good
Liberals aren’t leftists, but there’s a whole world of political thought to the left of liberals.
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.
Hey now. Anarchists and Maoists and a bunch of others are leftists too.
Liberals are not.
Can you define direct action for me? What do you think it is?
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