Yeah, Biden will almost certainly kill more people on balance.
But the US imperial position has been weakened enough that even under Biden its probably not going to be as effective, and Biden is probably going to make things better in the US, maybe, unless he immediately does austerity which he probably will.
Our tactics should be build our small but growing dual power, keep up the Molotovs and critical support for all (non ISIS level batshit) anti-imperialism.
it's basically the same situation either way, just the people are dying in different places.
Biden will kill more people but that's ok because he might have been able to kill even more is... not a great argument
we have no dual power in the US. there are a few projects trying to build it but none are of a sufficient size to call them dual power.
(the socdem redefinition of dual power as elected leftists is not dual power in the Marxist or anarchist senses of the term, which look to institutions outside the state that can be built up and eventually supplant the state itself)
The argument is that the amount of harm that Biden can do vs Trump is limited due to the collapse of imperial strength. It doesn't make him a better person, it does make him less materially harmful.
I was thinking more our small but growing mutual aid orgs, the nascent Socialist militias, our much strong socialist cores in unions etc.
Yes, they're not dual power in the sense of a direct challenge to state institutions even at the local level (yet), but they are in the sense they are an institution providing some of the services a state is expected to, and I expect them to grow dramatically in power over the winter as the state becomes less able to provide.
Yeah, Biden will almost certainly kill more people on balance.
But the US imperial position has been weakened enough that even under Biden its probably not going to be as effective, and Biden is probably going to make things better in the US, maybe, unless he immediately does austerity which he probably will.
Our tactics should be build our small but growing dual power, keep up the Molotovs and critical support for all (non ISIS level batshit) anti-imperialism.
it's basically the same situation either way, just the people are dying in different places.
(the socdem redefinition of dual power as elected leftists is not dual power in the Marxist or anarchist senses of the term, which look to institutions outside the state that can be built up and eventually supplant the state itself)
The argument is that the amount of harm that Biden can do vs Trump is limited due to the collapse of imperial strength. It doesn't make him a better person, it does make him less materially harmful.
I was thinking more our small but growing mutual aid orgs, the nascent Socialist militias, our much strong socialist cores in unions etc.
Yes, they're not dual power in the sense of a direct challenge to state institutions even at the local level (yet), but they are in the sense they are an institution providing some of the services a state is expected to, and I expect them to grow dramatically in power over the winter as the state becomes less able to provide.