What an immense tension there must be between “Trump is a fascist who would turn the US into a Nazi regime” and “all that I can or must do to stop Trump is cast a single ballot one time.”
I don’t envy anyone caught in that contradiction.
Voting as an anarchist is a bit like bringing the trash can to the street: It’d be better if the trash isn’t occuring, recycled or composted locally, but as long as you don’t have the means and community, it is better to take it to the street to be picked up or in this case to vote.
The way I see it is neither candidate is going to be anything like I want, nor does voting actually do much.
But from a purely utilitarian perspective, one candidate is going to cause a whole lot more suffering than the other, and casting a ballot against them is little effort relatively, so I sure as hell am doing that.
Id est: A movement that’d resemble Jan 6 and make the US more democratic. I don’t aspire to be counterrevolutionary by concern trolling, but as a European outsider, I don’t see how that is a) happening and b) not making things worse, given the violent backlash this would create.
No, this elections-triggered revolutionism is impatient (since the US-American society isn’t primed or even politicised to even work towards Anarchy) and dangerous, given the current total armament.
These elections are wrong, but not voting make things with criticality worse.
Current China learnt big time from AES and its revolutions. They don’t care about our goals, but relevant for us, they acquired power, slowly, but persistently, without making major mistakes until CoViD. Anarchism in my understanding is a civilisational megaproject likely spanning millenia, just like climate action.
Voting as an anarchist is a bit like bringing the trash can to the street: It’d be better if the trash isn’t occuring, recycled or composted locally, but as long as you don’t have the means and community, it is better to take it to the street to be picked up or in this case to vote.
The way I see it is neither candidate is going to be anything like I want, nor does voting actually do much.
But from a purely utilitarian perspective, one candidate is going to cause a whole lot more suffering than the other, and casting a ballot against them is little effort relatively, so I sure as hell am doing that.
Trump For Compost Pile 2024
Id est: A movement that’d resemble Jan 6 and make the US more democratic. I don’t aspire to be counterrevolutionary by concern trolling, but as a European outsider, I don’t see how that is a) happening and b) not making things worse, given the violent backlash this would create.
No, this elections-triggered revolutionism is impatient (since the US-American society isn’t primed or even politicised to even work towards Anarchy) and dangerous, given the current total armament.
These elections are wrong, but not voting make things with criticality worse.
Current China learnt big time from AES and its revolutions. They don’t care about our goals, but relevant for us, they acquired power, slowly, but persistently, without making major mistakes until CoViD. Anarchism in my understanding is a civilisational megaproject likely spanning millenia, just like climate action.