My perspective is that you fight on ALL fronts and you don’t leave power on the table for fascists to grab just because it doesn’t fit in with your revolution fantasy narrative to do so. I never said nor implied that voting is enough. It isn’t. But it is a simple way to keep dangerous people away from power.
That’s dandy, but that’s not an anarchist perspective. Fascism arises from capitalism under threat - if you’re not ready to defend yourself against the state abusing it’s monopoly on violence, then you’re not an anarchist.
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
My perspective is that you fight on ALL fronts and you don’t leave power on the table for fascists to grab just because it doesn’t fit in with your revolution fantasy narrative to do so. I never said nor implied that voting is enough. It isn’t. But it is a simple way to keep dangerous people away from power.
That’s dandy, but that’s not an anarchist perspective. Fascism arises from capitalism under threat - if you’re not ready to defend yourself against the state abusing it’s monopoly on violence, then you’re not an anarchist.
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
It’s the people’s house. We built it. It’s been stolen and you let them. Who’s the anarchist?
The state, something that anarchists famously believe is made by and for the people.
If the house of government was ever truly the people’s, it was stolen from us the moment it was done being built.
Democracy is only a small measure of power, and in a liberal democracy, most of that power is ceded to capital.