If you believe a bourgeois dictatorship will allow you to vote away the interests of capital, you have utterly failed to do any kind of analysis. Even if the vast majority of Amerikkkans voted for Claudia, the state would never allow her to take office under any circumstances. Be it by legal fiat, arrest, political ban, assassination, whatever. An imperialist state will never cede a fraction of control to an anti-imperialist. It always has and always will employ any and all forms of violence to prevent any loss of bourgeois political capture. This is true not just of its own state, but for all other sovereign nations in the wold as well.
We’re talking about the same modern Amerikkkan state that:
Spent the last 80 years directly supporting Nazis, Contras, reactionary terrorists, brutal compradors and fascist dictators.
Spent decades hunting down, prosecuting, imprisoning and assassinating Communists living in the US.
Murdered MILLIONS of people in Viet Nam for winning a war against their colonial slavemasters and trying to have a socialist society. The land and water in Viet Nam is still poisoned and scarred from when your fascist empire invaded.
Murdered MILLIONS of people in Korea for trying to have a socialist society while occupying and enslaving the southern half of the country, and has kept the DPRK under starvation sanctions in order to kill the remaining population while laughing about how underfed and difficult their conditions are.
Assassinated Allende and his supporters for winning a popular election on a socialist platform, replacing him with a brutal fascist dictator.
Tried to assassinate Castro OVER 600 TIMES for winning a socialist revolution and Cuba has spent the last 65 years under illegal sanctions designed to starve the entire country to death.
Almost ended the world who-knows-how-many-times just to exterminate socialism in the USSR.
Which is presently, training, arming and providing media cover for the neo-nazi regime in Kiev that the US couped into power 10 years ago to run a proxy war against Russia to strip mine the land and keep capitalism going for a few more decades, and is now on the brink of nuclear war.
Waged a proxy war against the USSR by the CIA arming, training and funding reactionary terrorists and mercenaries to overthrow the revolutionary socialist PDPA government in Afghanistan. A US-backed project which would plunge Afghanistan into war from 1978 to 2021.
Assassinated Gaddaffi in 2011 and couped Libya for being too socialist, the giggled about his murder in a TV interview.
Couped Iran in the 1950s for being too socialist.
Presently wants to nuke Iran because Iranians had a successful anti-imperialist revolution in 1979.
Is presently using Isn’treal to genocide and warcrime its way into a direct hot war with Iran in order to give the US a pretext to invade Iran, overthrow their government, stripmine the land and murder its people (for opposing imperialism).
Is endlessly lying, arming fascist proxies in Phillippines, occupied Korea and Japan and crossing every red line possible to start a nuclear war with socialist China. While fomenting anti-Chinese racism on every media outlet they control, which is all of them.
See any historical theme? I could go on for fucking days… But if you don’t understand why “revolutionary electoralism” is a dead-end, you have failed to understand why Fascism exists.
There is no path to end the global capitalist empire which does not require meeting state violence with proletarian violence, but good luck with that because the vast majority of Amerikkkans are fascist anti-intellectuals with no self-awareness.
Thankfully, the PSL is not deluded enough to be engaging in “revolutionary electoralism.” Their candidacy is viewed firstly as a party-building effort (rather than a direct path to proletarian power) and secondly as a mechanism for heightening the contradictions inherent to bourgeois democracy: that the Republicans and Democrats worked together to kick them off the ballot in swing states – Pennsylvania and Georgia – serves to underscore the futility of bourgeois democracy and prime the public for a proletarian alternative.
If you believe a bourgeois dictatorship will allow you to vote away the interests of capital, you have utterly failed to do any kind of analysis. Even if the vast majority of Amerikkkans voted for Claudia, the state would never allow her to take office under any circumstances. Be it by legal fiat, arrest, political ban, assassination, whatever. An imperialist state will never cede a fraction of control to an anti-imperialist. It always has and always will employ any and all forms of violence to prevent any loss of bourgeois political capture. This is true not just of its own state, but for all other sovereign nations in the wold as well.
We’re talking about the same modern Amerikkkan state that:
See any historical theme? I could go on for fucking days… But if you don’t understand why “revolutionary electoralism” is a dead-end, you have failed to understand why Fascism exists.
There is no path to end the global capitalist empire which does not require meeting state violence with proletarian violence, but good luck with that because the vast majority of Amerikkkans are fascist anti-intellectuals with no self-awareness.
Thankfully, the PSL is not deluded enough to be engaging in “revolutionary electoralism.” Their candidacy is viewed firstly as a party-building effort (rather than a direct path to proletarian power) and secondly as a mechanism for heightening the contradictions inherent to bourgeois democracy: that the Republicans and Democrats worked together to kick them off the ballot in swing states – Pennsylvania and Georgia – serves to underscore the futility of bourgeois democracy and prime the public for a proletarian alternative.
So how many more contradictions until you burn down a military base? Asking for a friend.