• bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    The inability to work things out and form coalitions is something thats pretty annoying. If you ever talk with anarchists and MLs, you will hear a lot of similar ideas, especially regarding what to do in the meantime, but they will still find things to bicker about in any electoral orgs. I get the desire for idealogical purity, and I see it in myself a lot. The dreams of an anarchist are beautiful, but if you are unwilling to deviate even the smallest amount from the direct path you see that leads there, you’ll fail to see the other slightly longer, twisty paths that lead to the end goal. Having a pure ideology is admirable if the idea is good, but it is useless if you can never realize it because you are too inflexible.

    Personally, I’ve kinda given up on electoral orgs, so I’ll do my best to do direct action that genuinely helps people in the meantime. One man cannot start and sustain a revolution in the neoliberal hell hole I live in. I plan on moving soon, and when I finally do, I’ll join up with the local direct action orgs such as Food Not Bombs, and other more regional orgs, such as a few that focus on providing heat to the unhoused.