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I never said not to take direct action to help others. Not sure what you're arguing against.
You directly accused OP of wanting to reform capitalism. I don't even know what your point is any more because any time someone presses you pivot to a new argument.
The op did not give concrete examples, but if they're getting comments about their praxis like that, it's probably because of they're reformist tactics. And reformism doesn't work. I have been pretty consistent with my message
All op was saying is that changing society is a complicated process. They even conceded that capitalism is bad.What about this do you disagree with?
By op I mean /c/SorteKanin. I hope we're talking about the same person.
This is my last reply to them: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/7558299
In which I was countering the OP-OP, not them. Not sure what you're objecting to
Ok. I see now. Maybe I did a poor job of communicating my point in my first response to you. I'm just tired of this all-or-nothing attitude. People need immediate solutions and venting on social media about "capitalism bad" is just not effective. I think clear actionable items are more effective.
I am all for direct action immediately. In fact, that's the only thing I'm for, because this direct action is the only thing that can bring down capitalism. But it has to be direct action. Not voting for politicians or begging them and shit.
I'm really happy that some of you have the privilege of being accelerationists knowing that not much will affect you and you can choose to be apolitical. In the meantime, there are plenty of us that are being directly affected by legislation that republicans are passing and for now the best we can do is try to stand up to them. Thanks for your "direct action" though.
I'm not being accelerationist. I have seen in the past that voting doesn't do jack shit. Direct action brought the 8-hour day, the 40-hour week, the anti child labor laws, and so many others. Voting brought you directly to trump and fascism. So save your centrist smugness for someone else.