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[–] [email protected] 27 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

That's why it's important to communicate with them rather than alienating them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You're talking as if for over a year (cough decades cough) Palestinian activists hadn't tried talking to the liberals about their party's unshakable support for the ongoing genocide.

What's left to say to people who are "going to pick the lesser of 2 evils" even when you showed them that their pick is still funding the ethnic cleansing of all Palestinian people?

We should talk to general leftist people. Not the liberals. They still value money and profit over people

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

i probably would have taken that liberal stance long ago, but i had people explain their views to me in a good way that eventually made me rethink some of the things i held as truth. its just that it doesnt happen overnight. im not saying anyone will be convinced but the socialist strategy of getting people talking about political topics in a consistent organized way actually helps a lot here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Why? They will side with fascism over leftism every time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

That assumption isn't true. Socialists aren't born that way, most come out of the status quo ideology of liberalism. By abandoning all liberals with blanket statements, we'd simply self-fulfill that prophecy. Even US libertarian militias, a peak of liberalist ideology, have sometimes sided with antifascists over fascists (see: Redneck Revolt lines of affiliation with American Pit Vipers).

You're referencing a real trend, and there's a kernel of truth behind it, however it's harmful to the socialist movement to assume that as a universal inevitability.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

There aren't enough leftists to win with violence, so our only hope is to win with dialogue. What's your plan?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Dialogue can't change the mode of production, so we must create more leftists so revolution becomes feasible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

agreed -- how do we make more leftists though?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly. Talking. Violence isn't going to make more leftists.

That said, call me paranoid but I think three-letter organizations are the main obstacle to organizing. I don't know what to do about that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

Revolution will be required eventually, which was the original point.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

By telling potential allies they're as bad as the enemy of course! It'll start working any day now.

The leftists have their own magical thinking and it's seems be to inherient to the movement. But unlike rightist magcial thinking, one cannot bully their way to a leftist paradise so right wins and will always win until the leftists compromise. No sign of that happening in my life time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I mean, liberalism and those who support the current system are bad, yes. That doesn't mean it is necessarily deiliberate, but the Capitalist and by extension Imperialist system most of us on Lemmy live in is an extreme source of cruelty and brutality worldwide.

Don't know what you mean by "magical thinking" though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Liberals are the enemy though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

I disagree, so my plan is just violence