• Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      I mean, I’m planning on voting for PSL myself, cause they’re the most vocal/credible as an anti-war option from what’s presented

      I was just being a smartass because there’s more to political organizing than just voting, and the people browbeating others to be obedient to their meta game in the process I find pretty silly

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        3 months ago

        Oh ok, sorry!! Yeah, I am not super-learned in the socialist platform yet. I was actually gonna vote PSL, but they are not on the ballot in my state. I started a Socialist community here on Lemmy the other day tho, so as I am posting the stuff that I am reading about, I’m learning about it. :)

        And thanks for standing with me against this sea of Blue MAGA that I find myself in right now! lolol

        But do you have an good books or articles or sites that would help me learn more about the theories behind PSL?

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          3 months ago

          I mean, personally I’m an anarchist, I run with different crowds but I have run into people from PSL at protests for quite some time- since Iraq- and they’re usually a different vibe. I find a lot of common ground in wanting less external imperial violence and more directing that money to helping people historically oppressed internally. At the end of the day the way I see it, we have a shared endgoal, some potential political disagreements along the way, but at least I can count on principled opposition to genocide.

          Here’s a link to what their vision for a revolutionary government looks like.

          Frankly the need for more than ‘just reform’ is also extremely relevant now more than ever with decades of failure to address climate change in a meaningful way- at some point if your goal is meaningful change it’s going to require fundamentally restructuring how the economy operates. Some people will call that ‘authoritarian’ but what’s also ‘authoritarian’ is when a handful of people use their amassed wealth to poison the planet without repercussions, and jeopardize entire future generations, while using the police to suppress dissent. Instead we get ‘nothing will fundamentally change except more hot wars’ from the Democrats, and genocidal ideation from the Republicans.