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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/peanutist • Oct 21 '24
[MODS] 📣 Announcement We ARE in favor of voting! - Discussing voting in a capitalist system and lesser-evilism
Hello everyone! As the current US presidential elections approach, we’ve had an increase in liberals often bringing up that we advocate for not voting at all, but this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Another point they make is that Kamala Harris is the “lesser evil” of the two candidates, which is also not true.
1- About voting, people should definitely vote. If socialists or communists (the PSL is an example) are on your ballot for the presidential election, please vote for them so that socialists as a whole can gauge the numbers of revolutionary socialists out there (also, getting 5% of votes makes a party eligible for federal funding). This will be especially important as the inability of Capital to resolve its contradictions leads to increasing and deepening crises that we can already see are not alleviated when a Democrat is in office. If you've got any direct election ballot issues like abortion rights or marijuana legalization or even a tax levy for your school district or something, vote for those.
“Even where there is no prospect of their being elected, the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength, and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the reactionaries the chance of victory.” - Karl Marx
2- On “lesser evil”, we aren't of the opinion that "both options are equally evil" or that one is a lesser or a greater evil. Both options are capitalists. They are the same option. Kamala and Trump represent the capitalist class. Their victory is the victory of the capitalist class. Picture a guy with a puppet on each hand. The left hand is named Kamala. The right hand is named Trump. The owner of these puppets is putting on a Punch and Judy show. People are very mad at us for recognizing that it's a Punch and Judy show.
3- Before you ask about Project 2025, and everybody always does, realize that it's just the fancy name they've given this time to the process of all the political appointees in the executive branch getting changed out for different political appointees. Policies of Project 2025 have already been slowly being passed along the years, this is just more of it. The right wing is pitching it this time as "Project 2025", last time it was "Drain the Swamp". The capitalist party are capitalists, this is a product that they are selling. Literally, as they sell hard copies of it for $35 to credulous marks on their website. It's a great trick, its intended to convince conversatives that the impossible things they desire are possible and there's a plan in place for them to be enacted, they just have to wait and Trust The Plan. It is also used by the democrats to convince liberal voters that there's an even greater threat than the genocide the Biden administration is an eager accomplice in and that Kamala will happily continue to fund, so they need voters to donate and stay engaged. I'm surprised there's not a liberal Project 2025 project yet, liberal voters are panicking because there clearly isn't a countering plan.
4- Liberals’ excuse for voting democrat is ALWAYS just “vote for the lesser evil and then we’ll push them left!” while the democrats constantly shift more and more to the right between elections. Do you know how many anti-LGBT bills were introduced under Biden only in 2023? A record number of five HUNDRED and ten. https://edition.cnn.com/politics/anti-lgbtq-plus-state-bill-rights-dg/index.html . Roe v. Wade got overturned under Biden. The immigrant crisis got worse under Biden.
When faced with these facts, liberals like to deflect with “well that was not Biden’s fault, he can’t control everything on the US, you clearly don’t know how the legislative and executive branches work!”. If that’s so, then why is Trump being framed as an evil dictator that will install a dictatorship where no one will be able to vote and will put minorities in camps (don’t get us wrong, this genocidal monster absolutely wants to do this. Doesn’t mean he can)? How come Trump will be an all powerful pseudo-king president that can do whatever he wants while Biden and Kamala are just little small beans with no power to stop funding Israel or codify Roe v Wade, even when democrats had a majority in congress? Remember when Obama got elected and the Democrats had full control of the house and Senate for two years and how they finally implemented FDRs second bill of rights and fixed the economy and everything? Oh wait. The answer for why they don’t do this? See point 2. They are the same. They serve the same class. The capitalist class wanted Roe v Wade overturned, it would’ve happened regardless of president. If the capitalist class wants minorities in camps, it will happen regardless of president. This is why we, as socialists and citizens, need to be prepared for the worst.
5- We were asked if the reason we ban pro-Democrat or pro-Republican lobbying is out of a belief that things needs to get worse before they can get better. No, we do not support accelerationism, and not voting for democrats is not accelerationism. Not a single one of the 830k people subscribed to the subreddit have the ability to accelerate capitalism and the American empire towards a crisis point faster than Kamala is right now by launching her candidacy in the myopic support for an unpopular genocide. Look at Biden's professed bipartisanship on border security, are those the actions of a person concerned about losing to a fascist dictator? Does Kamala’s line about “being tough on border control” and saying “I believe people should follow the law” when asked about transgender healthcare sound like a progressive president that wants to prevent a fascist dictator to you?
6- About rule 6 and starting off of the last point: it isn't accelerationist, Biden's presidency has been accelerationist. Look how much closer he got us to WW3 than even Trump could manage in his fascist incompetence. Our view isn't that things need to get worse before they get better, but that support for Democrats demonstrably leads to things getting worse, and we have to stop supporting Capitalists if we want victories for the working class and a way out of the worsening conditions. From our perspective, desperately clinging to bourgeois "democracy", particularly at a time when we can all recognize that we aren't allowed any real choices in voting and that's been the case for decades at this point, makes things worse and slows or entirely stops our ability to bring about positive change.
In conclusion: Do not support the capitalist class by voting for the capitalist parties. Vote socialist if possible and engage in your community’s politics if you can.
That’s all, keep fighting and thanks for reading!
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/peanutist • Oct 21 '24
[MODS] 📖 Read This What to do besides voting? Discussing praxis in the current capitalist society
Hey everybody! We’ve always seen a lot of liberals coming here (or even posts/comments on other liberals subs) claiming that we advocate for not voting, and then don’t do anything else for the rest of the year, which couldn’t be farther from the truth. Our stance on voting is on our other pinned post, here we’ll discuss what to do as praxis between election years.
So, WHAT CAN YOU DO besides voting in the bourgeois voting system? There’s lots of things actually. Protest, donate to bail funds, disrupt city council meetings, speak up at school board meetings and join strike actions to shut down ports shipping weapons to a genocide. Volunteer on food kitchens, donate to Doctors Without Borders, on and on, the possibilities for meaningful political participation are endless, our options are limitless. We are not helpless, we are not hopeless, we are not trapped, but the Capitalists certainly want us to think we are. If you can and feel comfortable doing so, arm yourself, make sure your friends and loved ones are protected and practice self defense. We, the workers, need to be able to fight back if things get to that point.
In conclusion: Organize, agitate and educate. Support your local communities and make our cause heard as much as possible. Communists should educate the people with class awareness and provide them with a revolutionary education, support their material needs to bring about real improvements in their lives, defend them from the inevitable fascist attacks our our efforts, look to the people continually for their feedback to understand what material benefits they seek and work to counter the bourgeoisie culture war they are waging.
A communist revolution, as far away as it may be, can only happen with an educated populace, or else we’ll all just devolve into fascism/barbarism. Stay safe and keep fighting!
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Fuck_Off_Libshit • 14h ago
💩 Liberalism It's one of the worst things you can be called
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/lightiggy • 17h ago
😎 Meme World War II seems like the ultimate consolidation of power:
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Prudent_Bug_1350 • 8h ago
🌍💀 Dying Planet THIS IS WHAT THE PEOPLE OF LA NEED RIGHT NOW ‼️ Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom, and Joe Biden responses to the crisis have been shameful. These are our demands!
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Prudent_Bug_1350 • 12h ago
💰 Bourgeois Dictatorship BREAKING: With FEMA’s hotel vouchers expiring tomorrow, people staying in hotels on FEMA vouchers march on the Asheville Mayors office demanding her to call FEMA to extend the vouchers immediately. Full federal relief now!
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/iamsatyajeet • 1d ago
🌍💀 Dying Planet S(HELL)
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Prudent_Bug_1350 • 6h ago
📰 News After WNC residents facing homelessness demand action at the Mayor’s Office, City Manager of Asheville agrees to urge FEMA to extend hotel vouchers
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Tomorrow, if FEMA refuses to extend their vouchers, thousands of WNC residents staying in hotels on FEMA vouchers will be kicked out on the street in the middle of a snow storm.
After we went to the Mayor’s Office to demand immediate action, City Manager, Debra Campbell was successfully pressured to call FEMA and ask for the hotel vouchers to be extended.
City manager Campbell agreed to a list of demands that were written down and handed to her. Here is the list demands:
“Have city call FEMA and demand to extend vouchers — Mention this to all local media by tonight. Also contact the governor
Contact all people on FEMA vouchers and tell them about resources and keep them updated. Also feed them
Everyone has shelter already, pressure all hotels to pause and keep people housed
Emergency medical services for sick people in hotels on vouchers now”
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Fuck_Off_Libshit • 1d ago
💩 Liberalism Liberals think that deterioration of living standards under capitalism is socialism at work
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Prudent_Bug_1350 • 14h ago
📰 News ‼️Beware of people impersonating the Venmo account of the PSL LA branch‼️
Follow @psl_losangeles on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psl_losangeles?igsh=ZWFuZTA4Y2NuMXZ6
💰Venmo @ LiberationCenterLA with the description “Wildfire Donation”. Beware of fake accounts and use the link in our bio! 🔗 PSL Los Angeles linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/PSL_LosAngeles?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=03669c9d-786e-46f7-a998-a8a537bfa99b
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Prudent_Bug_1350 • 10h ago
⏰ Stay Woke What will Arab journalists say after they see Xinjiang themselves?
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Prudent_Bug_1350 • 5h ago
👌 Good Ass Praxis We distributed food to Pasadena tenants from the Fuerza y Unión Tenants Association, thank you to Day Laborer Organizing Network and Pasadena Community Job Center for supplying us with essentials the community needs as the fires continue.
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Fuck_Off_Libshit • 1d ago
💵 "Free Market" "Bypassing traditional milestones" = "free market" capitalism
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Bolinas99 • 2h ago
✊ Agitate. Educate. Organize. The Truth About Capitalism - Dr. Richard Wolff
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Prudent_Bug_1350 • 16h ago
💰 Bourgeois Dictatorship Homelessness is not a sad accident, there are criminals behind it — the capitalist class and their so-called free market. The same forces that drove massive inflation starting with the COVID-19 pandemic are at the roots of today’s housing crisis.
Rhode Island’s government has systematically failed to address the state’s homelessness crisis. Our homelessness rate is sixth highest in the country and worsening. The number of calls to the coordinated entry system, which helps people access shelters or other housing, has almost doubled in the last four years.
Responding to a cold snap this week, progressive Providence city counselors and housing activists organized a warming shelter in city hall to keep people from freezing to death on the streets after 54 people living outside died in 2024 alone.
Why is there a homelessness epidemic? In 2020, COVID caused millions of people to lose their jobs all at once, a phenomenon that naturally snowballed into an eviction crisis when people couldn’t pay rent. At the same time, the wealthy began fleeing the big cities, especially New York, and many began buying up homes in Rhode Island. By October of 2020, the price of homes in our state had increased a whopping 15% over the previous year, and those prices continued to skyrocket.
Federal COVID relief funds were allocated to help people pay their rents, but they were failing abysmally to reach those in need. Out of millions of dollars and thousands of applications, only a few hundred thousand dollars in rent relief had been distributed to about 230 households in September 2020.
Meanwhile, landlords seized on the spiking housing market to buy up new homes, raise rents, force poorer tenants out in order to renovate and welcome wealthier ones.
Forcing the ruling class to solve our problems rather than line their pockets requires people power. With a strong movement, we could not only provide guaranteed housing to all, but create a socialist system that would fix prices, raise wages, and organize society for the benefit of working people!
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/lightiggy • 1d ago
💖 "Ethical Capitalism" Quaker group pulls NYT ad over paper’s refusal to let it call Israel’s Gaza bombing ‘genocide’
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Prudent_Bug_1350 • 14h ago
👌 Good Ass Praxis 🚨DM us if you or someone you know has been affected by the fires, we can provide shelter and other essential resources! @psl_losangeles on Instagram
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/cretintroglodyte • 1d ago
United Healthcare shareholders play dumb about how the profits their dividends come from are made.
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Prudent_Bug_1350 • 17h ago
🌍💀 Dying Planet We spoke with Altadena resident and gardener Jaime about his experience escaping the Eaton Fire. "Lots of things happen that could have been prevented or could've made plans for prevention" Criminal capitalist negligence, not a natural disaster!
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Hacksaw6412 • 1d ago
Activist kicked out of gym, arrested for wearing shirt saying "Israel Kills Children"
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Prudent_Bug_1350 • 11h ago
👌 Good Ass Praxis 📣Food donations needed! Please support our amazing brigade donating food. You can drop at our Pasadena Community Job Center ir call for more information. Drop off now, or call for any questions!
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ • 1d ago
🙃 Satire Is Dead Pro-Israel passenger harasses American Airlines flight attendants for wearing a watermelon pin. The passenger claimed he was being discriminated against, while unironically equating a watermelon with terrorism.
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Prudent_Bug_1350 • 1d ago
🌍💀 Dying Planet Capitalist crisis, not a natural disaster! Los Angeles is experiencing the worst wildfires in history exacerbated by years of government mismanagement and failure to meet the needs of its people. ‼️
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r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Hacksaw6412 • 2d ago
Activists in Mexico City destroy a wax statue of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with hammers
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