Yes they may be a necessary evil to some extent but they should always be the ones answerable to others and not the one to be answered to. So many of our current problems with parties here in the United States stem from over concentration/centralization. Large unanswerable on accountable organizations that ignore the General Public. And especially when it comes to Democrats do not invest locally.

I don’t think that I ever implied that they were. Because that would be really silly me being a left anarchist/libertarian. I have no problem with leftists or knowing what leftists are. I just have problem with authoritarians whether they pretend to be left or right.

And yes hierarchies are not completely avoidable. But they should be as local and as granular as possible. And we can have a really vociferous and act of debate on that. But National level organizations have always been one of the biggest problems.

Yep, local community action is the path to really helping people and possible reform.

The problem is they don’t under leninism. Not in any actual sense. The vanguard party does. Everyone else are disposable proletariat. To be imprisoned or slaughtered should the vanguard party feel threatened.

Modern Russian oligarchs were given their wealth and position by the vanguard. Not by the proletariat. China is a similar story. Leninism/maoism has never, and will never work. It’s just a system that creates the same wealthy ruling class via slightly different means. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

They are not in any meaningful sense left. What happens is it when you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail. The reason tankies look so similar to magats. Is because they are unified in a Devotion to strong men and a authoritarianism over left or right. They believe that might makes right and disagreement is punishable by Death. No more no less. They are authoritarians and will use whatever economic policy they think serves the case in point china.

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Something I generally support as well. Though I’m lucky enough to not be Federated with 2/3 of the problem locally. It’s just kind of out of place in a community like this is all.

While yes, that is a thing. This is however literally a community meant to discuss this sort of thing.

Considering some of the roads outside St Louis were so heavily sprayed with agent orange. That they literally had to permanently evacuate a few towns. This is entirely believable.

Oh absolutely. However that might imply they didn’t actually read. Or might be being disingenuous. Not sure. You were very clear in your post who you were talking about.

What part of any of @JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 's post is racist? Also. One correct use also doesn’t excuse all the BS uses.

Yep. Leninist aren’t communist. And never will be. They use the term ironically like magats use the term freedom. They make it their identity despite being opposed to it.

Crypto currency is inconvenient for normal people. You have to set up a a special wallet you don’t already have. Which takes time and effort. Which costs money. In order to do anything with it. Most people would have to translate it to actual currency to be very useful. Which again, costs time and effort. Which costs money.

If someone had a go-fund me for medical debt. And you told them you would have donated. But they don’t accept funko-pops. It wouldn’t be much different. Or donating your old car to a food bank. It’s a lot of unnecessary hassle. Which diminishes returns.

Between the passive aggression and the projection. It’s clear your more focused on evangelizing crypto currency. Which most people have no use for. It’s good to have a hobby. It’s immature to act upset when others tell you they don’t want to participate in it.

It’s possible to transfer funds out of crypto. As long as you aren’t on the wrong end of the constant rug pulls. However your phrasing is oddly passive aggressive.

If you want to donate. Donate. If them not wanting to deal with the hassle of, or something with the horrible reputation of crypto. Is excuse for you not to. You likely never wanted to. 🤷

To be fair. Confronting people about their religion doesn’t usually go well.

The current DNC is filled with people good at compromising the party’s platform in exchange for donations, but none of them actually know how to use it to get votes

It’s not that they’re bad at it. It’s just that they’re serving two masters. One master provides the lions share of their funding and war chest. The other master provides the votes to get them elected. And both have different priorities. Which is why you get the discrepancy.

If they abandon the first master. They wouldn’t have the staffing and funds to message the uneducated disengaged population to get their votes. If they abandon their second master. They might not get elected, but they’ll still have jobs.

Some might say that’s bullshit. That Democrats having been raking in record amounts from small donations every presidential election. These are people clinging to a thread but who’ve lost the plot.

The terrifying truth is that fascists dump multiples of that every 4 year splurge. Each year. Does it justify Democrats seeming mismanagement. Hell no. But it is short sighted to crucify them over it.

If we want them to stop. To even improve. We need to figure out a way to provide the organization, funds, and resources to replace the money they’re getting from the wealthy. We used to do that through the labor unions. We don’t anymore and there’s a very good lesson to learn as to why we don’t.

The labor unions miscalculated their importance and influence. Much like third-party voters do today. Largely withholding support from the Democratic presidential candidate. Because they didn’t feel that he had accomplished enough for them. They allowed a fascist to win the presidency in an overwhelming landslide. Combined with the other houses of congress. The first thing the fascist did was to get and cripple labor and Union power. Even to this very day. They can’t provide the funding and the resources the democratic party used to rely on. And that’s why the Democratic party does even less for them today than they used to.

All we have to do to get the parties rhetoric and behavior to align. Is to make oligarch money unnecessary and unattractive. And in the meantime as the saying goes. Hate the game but not the player. In order to get the system changed they have to play the game.

So… Wait. Does that mean capitalism is socialism too? /s in case anyone needs it