Even if you wanted to mitigate fascist policies, it has become very obvious, especially recently, that the tactic of voting “the lesser of two evils” is total bullshit. Even if you voted for PSL or some other third party, you are making a statement, which still does more power to make the ruling class shake in their boots. It’s like how more people using Linux makes Microsoft more worried (just an analogy, maybe not completely accurate, given their history of E.E.E.) than people asking for change within Windows. Even if you wanted to vote blue, what anti-war, anti-imperialist option even exists? Every single last one of those fuckers have betrayed us. Do you want to be covertly stabbed in the back or overtly stabbed in the face?
If you want to actually create change, organize with your local socialist party and volunteer/participate. Try to unionize your workplace. Help with mutual aid. Interact with people and help them join or even just support our cause. The reason PSL is running in the election (Claudia & Karina) is not with the expectation to win, but to utilize the most optimal time–once in every four years, when most people are paying attention in politics–to build class consciousness among the working class. This is the current stage we are in, and we are working hard to build a movement for the long term. We won’t win through elections, but through revolution. The ruling class will not allow it any other way.
“A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a point, one can only fight fire with fire.”
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
Do not expect your local socialist party to be perfect. Do not wait for the perfect party. It will never come. To see change, we must organize now!
Even if you wanted to mitigate fascist policies, it has become very obvious, especially recently, that the tactic of voting “the lesser of two evils” is total bullshit. Even if you voted for PSL or some other third party, you are making a statement, which still does more power to make the ruling class shake in their boots. It’s like how more people using Linux makes Microsoft more worried (just an analogy, maybe not completely accurate, given their history of E.E.E.) than people asking for change within Windows. Even if you wanted to vote blue, what anti-war, anti-imperialist option even exists? Every single last one of those fuckers have betrayed us. Do you want to be covertly stabbed in the back or overtly stabbed in the face?
If you want to actually create change, organize with your local socialist party and volunteer/participate. Try to unionize your workplace. Help with mutual aid. Interact with people and help them join or even just support our cause. The reason PSL is running in the election (Claudia & Karina) is not with the expectation to win, but to utilize the most optimal time–once in every four years, when most people are paying attention in politics–to build class consciousness among the working class. This is the current stage we are in, and we are working hard to build a movement for the long term. We won’t win through elections, but through revolution. The ruling class will not allow it any other way.
Do not expect your local socialist party to be perfect. Do not wait for the perfect party. It will never come. To see change, we must organize now!
Solidarity forever!
We have nothing to lose but our chains!