Cowbee

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

I don't really know what you mean by "apologist."

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

If the US has a successful Communist revolution, it certainly wouldn't be ruled by the PRC or DPRK.

All governments are authoritarian, all exert authority. What matters is which class is exerting its authority, ie which class has control of the state.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Thanks, comrade!

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Concessions aren't coming, Capital doesn't want them.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Fair, I still have a lot of learning to do about Korea. I'm familiar with the basics of Japanese Imperialism, US intervention post-World War II, and then the general outline of the Korean War (including the devastation it brought on the Korean people) but beyond that I'm not very well-versed. It's an area I'd like to study further.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago (4 children)

People out of power care. The Working Class should signal its own strength by fronting its own party, not the bourgeois parties.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Third party votes do a number of things, from signaling disapproval for the electoral system in general, to supporting parties that one of the lead parties will need to bend towards to capture votes.

Also, only a handful of states even matter, most states aren't swing states. In these non-swing states, no vote matters. This is part of why voter apathy is so high.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago

PSL has already existed since 2004, so we should be closer!

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 days ago (10 children)

If you boil the entirety political action one can take to a binary choice between 2 Imperialist parties, then you'd have a point. To get to that point, though, you have had to fundamentally ignore the entire argument about voting being perhaps the weakest form of expressing political power one can do.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Rhetorically and factually trounce, then? Destroy, in the marketplace of ideas? What term would you prefer to describe your use as a springboard for me to bounce pro-Marxist ideas off of?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

Feel free to keep letting me ratio you then 👍

Also, pretty sure you're referring to me talking about the USSR, not the DPRK, so you can't even get your talking points straight.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Thank you, I certainly needed a refresher on the Freikorps. I greatly admire the work you do, it's a tremendous resource for us all.

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