• anticolonialist@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    In the words of James Baldwin ‘how much time do you want for your progress?’ we’ve been hearing about it takes time for decades and we’re having the exact same conversations now that they were having in the 50s and the '60s the same conversation they were having in the 20s and the 30s well over 100 years ago. So again I’ll ask how much time do you want for your progress?

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      4 months ago

      We’re not chiding you and saying electoralism is the only place for progress. In fact we need action outside of that if we want to see any progress. Organize, agitate, protest, unionize, build dual power. Fuckin do it all. But do not resign yourself to allowing the reactionaries to take control of the electoral arena. Do not think that you can wash your hands of the damage that will cause.

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            4 months ago

            In political science, a reactionary or a reactionist is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante—the previous political state of society—which the person believes possessed positive characteristics that are absent from contemporary society.