This meme is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. While 98% of self-described anarchists are LARPers, anarchists do exist.
I am one of them, I don’t meet many others :(
“Yeah but just calling myself a liberal doesn’t like…feel cool”
you should still vote blue even if you’re an anarchist.
Oh hey, you’re the guy in the meme
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aotearoa-workers-solidarity-movement-why-we-don-t-vote
Nowhere in that does it really explain why voting is counter productive. Voting is a tool, and a very cheap one. It only costs at most an hour once every 3 years and requiring knowledge of current events and politics, which is stuff you will know about anyway if you’re involved in any kind of direct action.
The only potential argument there is the psychological one, where people are lead to think voting is enough to do their part, but I don’t think that’s a strong enough argument to pass up choosing your opposition. As shit as Labour is, National and Act are worse, and by any logic other than accellerationism (which is a terrible idea of you care about the human cost), Labour will make fighting capitalism that little bit easier.
I understand not running for office. That article gives good reasons that actually joining politics is a wasted effort. It takes a lot of time and money, and almost always ends up making people slide towards the “reasonable politician”, not the radical that they promised to be.
Nowhere in that does it really explain why voting is counter productive.
You clearly didn’t read past the first paragraph then
haha, oh not to mention lemmy communists: love to defend imperalism, supports capitalistic explitation of foreign labour (as long as its not US explotation), oh and opposes anyone arming themselves in opposition to said imperialism 🤷
eh, internet will always be internet; it sucks but I know I’ll get along far better with a commie than a facist afterall. Faces help so much
love to defend imperalism
No?
supports capitalistic explitation of foreign labour (as long as its not US explotation)
No? What do you mean by this?
oh and opposes anyone arming themselves in opposition to said imperialism
No? Again, what do you mean?
Wowzers, dont forget the massive anti-commie liberals of lemmy! Shocking you could forget them considering it appears you are one! 😁
Provide context and examples of these “lemmy communists” defending imperialism, supporting capitalistic exploitation of foreign labor and opposing anyone arming themselves in opposition to said imperialism (should go without saying but without naming names of course). Which countries doing these things did you have in mind that “lemmy communists” are supporting?
Youre going to get the libs riled up into their Russo/Sino-phobic and anti-DPRK rants, give me a few to get my popcorn at least 😁
😉
uh, does the original “meme” provide that context? 😅 the point is to point out the diviseness - not to prove that communists are just as bad
tldr. leftist infighting bad.
No it doesn’t provide context for what you specifically pointed out. Which countries are we talking about that cover all these aspects that “lemmy communists” are defending?
No, this isn’t infighting. The people I’m making fun of aren’t leftists. The point of the meme is to make fun of the fact a lot of the people on this service who call themselves Anarchists are not, they are liberals. This is why an Anarchist instance has a “Europe” community for example. I’ve been called a “Tankie” by “Anarchists” because I don’t believe in contracts, voting or nationalist leaders like Zelenskyy. These people don’t know what anarchists are and certainly haven’t read about anarchism.
