• 2812481591 [any, it/its]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    If you’re in a house that’s on fire, and all the exits are locked, yes, it will get worse… But do you expect people to be excited when you say team blue is fighting hard to make sure you will be have access to buy a fire extinguisher with a 50% tax credit 2 years from now?

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      I think the point is more that the house is not yet on fire. Currently for most Americans it’s more like the house has a leaky roof and it smells of dead rats in the walls. We’re nowhere near the house on fire yet.

    • TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      4 months ago

      No but I probably still would not support any movement aiming to hasten collapse, because people with the indifference to bring about what that entails could not be trusted to lead in any humanistic way

        • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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          Yeah, are you suggesting as socialists we should do whatever we can to help the status quo because things could get worse? Should we vote Biden and try to prevent capitalism’s crises? We already do espouse what could be done reformistically for propaganda purposes. The crisis is terminal, I don’t know what you want.

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          Do you know what the words “revolutionary defeatism”

          I don’t think the context here is the same as when Lenin coined that term. He was largely advocating for defeatism in Russia because he thought weakening the Czar would enable a communist revolution within the country, which it did. That’s not going to happen in the US, if anything our empire weakening will just make people here more reactionary.

          You can, and clearly do, and I agree, support socialists within the Imperial Core trying to hasten the Empire’s collapse any way we can (which isn’t much honestly) as anti-imperialist praxis, but I don’t thing the term “revolutionary defeatism” is really applicable to this strategy since it’s not going to lead to a revolution, not here anyway.