More vague character assassinations against “.ml,” without actually engaging with the point: the Marxist position is that elections cannot bring about socialism, so the primary focus of any organization should be on grassroots struggle and growth, cadre training, and organizing, not on electoral campaigns. That’s the point, that’s the critique of the overwhelmingly electoral DSA. You keep beating this vague and impossible to actually define “.ml” because it’s harder for you to criticize actual political positions and parties, and it’s for those very same reasons that I reserve my critique for positions and parties as they actually exist, not vague “.world types.”
I never said resources cannot be allocated to both elections and organizing. If you do organizing work, you understand that your resources, both monetary and in terms of volunteer labor, are exceptionally limited. The position is that because elections cannot bring about socialism, the bulk of the work should be done on grassroots organizing and struggle.
You keep insinuating a binary that nobody is arguing for, using a strawman you call “.mls.” To begin with, Lemmy.ml is neither an ideology nor a party, it’s a site commonly used by Marxists. Why not just say “Marxists” or “Marxist-Leninists?” Because you’d have to engage with Marxism and Marxism-Leninism directly, not through a strawman.
More vague character assassinations against “.ml,” without actually engaging with the point: the Marxist position is that elections cannot bring about socialism, so the primary focus of any organization should be on grassroots struggle and growth, cadre training, and organizing, not on electoral campaigns. That’s the point, that’s the critique of the overwhelmingly electoral DSA. You keep beating this vague and impossible to actually define “.ml” because it’s harder for you to criticize actual political positions and parties, and it’s for those very same reasons that I reserve my critique for positions and parties as they actually exist, not vague “.world types.”
All of those things can be done in parallel with election. Especially local ones.
Its not vauge. Your dogma makes you closed minded.
I never said resources cannot be allocated to both elections and organizing. If you do organizing work, you understand that your resources, both monetary and in terms of volunteer labor, are exceptionally limited. The position is that because elections cannot bring about socialism, the bulk of the work should be done on grassroots organizing and struggle.
You keep insinuating a binary that nobody is arguing for, using a strawman you call “.mls.” To begin with, Lemmy.ml is neither an ideology nor a party, it’s a site commonly used by Marxists. Why not just say “Marxists” or “Marxist-Leninists?” Because you’d have to engage with Marxism and Marxism-Leninism directly, not through a strawman.
Uhhh… Sure.
Yep.