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  • davel@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.mlLibs be like about Palestine
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    1 month ago

    Because of the way the Electoral College works, this can only be true if you’re voting in a swing state, otherwise your vote is completely irrelevant, instead of almost completely irrelevant.

    I’m not one to make moralist arguments on how to vote. I’m not going to say that a vote for Harris is a vote for genocide. Voting in bourgeois elections in general, and for bourgeois parties in particular, have limited but real tactical utility*, one of which is short-term harm reduction. If you live in a swing state and want to tactically vote for Harris as harm reduction, I think there’s an argument for that. But it’s important to appreciate the severe limitations of bourgeois electoralism.

    *Marxists have written at length about their limited tactical uses since before the October Revolution over a century ago.













  • davel@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.mlLibs be like
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    3 months ago

    To be fair, the establishment dictionary definitions of those words are about as useless as the urbandictionary definitions.

    Even the Wikipedia definitions have their issues, because they’re written in the register of liberal/bourgeois hegemony. Just look at “totalitarianism”: it’s Arendtian horsepoo theory. Hannah Arendt came from a wealthy family and so unsurprisingly was anticommunist, and her work was funded & promoted by the CIA.