• Mambabasa@slrpnk.netOP
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    13 days ago

    Don’t like the system? Organize to take it down. That’s what I’m actually doing with real praxis. All you have is your alienated and atomized agency of the vote. That’s all you have. I have organization. I have theory. I have praxis.

    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 days ago

      Imagine thinking that making abstentionism posts is Praxis.

      Anarchism necessitates democratic processes. Arguing that democracy is incompatible with anarchism requires you to choose to use an overly complex definition, and the resulting rhetoric you need to engage in is hamstrung by the extra reframing steps you have to go through for people to understand your position.

      You can engage in direct action and also vote at the same time. Advocating for extensionism is itself a way of engaging in electoralism, and so if engaging in electoralism is bad on principle, then advocating for abstentionism is bad as well.

      Good job being useless.

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        13 days ago

        You’re conflating democracy with electoralism.

        Anarchism requires democracy. But liberal representative democracy isn’t the only democratic system. So it can be denounced by anarchists, while they are still in favour of democracy.

        Imagine thinking that making abstentionism posts is Praxis.

        Propaganda is praxis.

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            13 days ago

            Are you seriously insinuating that the idea of a liberal representative national democracy (with a police force, judges and parliament) is in line with actual anarchist thought? Because it sure seems like you are by claiming I’m “splitting hairs”.