Eh, the essay makes good points about why electoralism is not going to bring about a just society but it paves over all the ways that electoralism can make things worse with “we can just do mutual aid”.
For a lot of people in a lot of places casting a vote is low effort, and realistically the only intervention they’ll ever actually participate in while the barrier to entry is still so high due to the left being so utterly defeated. You can absolutely limit the power of “moderate” conservatives and liberals who tend to be the actual powerbase that successful facist takeovers of governments use. As well as having their own horrible goals.
It’s not really an either-or thing and the jackbooted thugs that are going to black bag you aren’t going to be like “well the ballot was down 15% (wildly optimistic) this year so uhhh I don’t think these orders are legitimate”.
We need numbers, practiced organisers, and institutions before accelerationism is at all advisable, if it even ever is. Even if your wildest pipe dreams about revolution broke out tomorrow we would lose right now, we just don’t have the numbers, skills and tactics yet.
Anti-electoralism is mathematically indistinguishable from accelerationism. It may (possibly) have a different motivation but, it results in the same outcome.
Eh, the essay makes good points about why electoralism is not going to bring about a just society but it paves over all the ways that electoralism can make things worse with “we can just do mutual aid”.
For a lot of people in a lot of places casting a vote is low effort, and realistically the only intervention they’ll ever actually participate in while the barrier to entry is still so high due to the left being so utterly defeated. You can absolutely limit the power of “moderate” conservatives and liberals who tend to be the actual powerbase that successful facist takeovers of governments use. As well as having their own horrible goals.
It’s not really an either-or thing and the jackbooted thugs that are going to black bag you aren’t going to be like “well the ballot was down 15% (wildly optimistic) this year so uhhh I don’t think these orders are legitimate”.
We need numbers, practiced organisers, and institutions before accelerationism is at all advisable, if it even ever is. Even if your wildest pipe dreams about revolution broke out tomorrow we would lose right now, we just don’t have the numbers, skills and tactics yet.
Ok, you can dogpile me now.
voting is not harm reduction
Eh if I’m not gonna do what the gov tells me I’m not gonna listen to a random internet comment repeating dogma ;)
it’s a fact, not dogma
I find this sentence very funny
Accelerationism is a religion.
this isn’t about accelerationism
Anti-electoralism is mathematically indistinguishable from accelerationism. It may (possibly) have a different motivation but, it results in the same outcome.
stating the fact that voting is not harm reduction is not antielectoralism
you’re making that up