Xoriff

Whenever I come across one of these lemmy.ml posts where this general topic of leftists shitting on western libs comes up, it always makes me curious.

I understand what y'all hate. I regularly hear what doesn't work (voting). But I never hear a concise, specific, tactical thing that I as an individual could do.

Sometimes I'll see very generic notes about how "nothing's ever going to change until a unified, violent, upheaval happens", but that's about the closest I've ever seen.

So please. Indulge me. I'm a US lefty lib. What should I be doing if I want to help leftist causes (pro-labor / break up corporations / etc).

Because I swear to gods. According to folks here:

• voting? Doesn't work
• donating? You'll never outspend
• grass roots whatever? They'll stomp you out
• acts of coordinated violence? We'd never say that explicitly

What then? I hate the current trajectory of my country and feel helpless to change anything with the tools I have at hand. Give me one practical thing I can do to help unfuck this mess.

(And to the FBI listening in. I'd never do anything illegal based on advice of Internet strangers. I just wanna hear them say, out loud, what I think they really want to say)

It's easy if you don't know how shitty the other 90% have it. That's the thing about privilege. The folks who have it assume that everybody has it like they do (i.e. that privilege isn't really a thing, everybody has equal opportunity, racism is dead, etc).

Oh really? My bad. I've always heard it used specifically to talk about corrupted implementations of Marxism. E.g. Animal Farm.

Err, maybe I'm confusing Marxism and socialism.

I'm still not exactly clear on how any of it avoids corruption. At the end of the day, somebody decides whose street gets paved first.

I didn't say I was anti-marxist. I'm anti-authoritarian. In all it's forms.

I'm anti-tankie as the next guy. But pick up a history book. Soviet Russia did a huge amount of the work during WW2.