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Oct 23, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Politicians claiming to be “Left” should be ditching the political theater, uniting to meet poor and working-class people where they’re at, and developing bottom-up, municipalist strategies with communities (in communities) in the lead-up to an international, #DualPower movement.
Entryism is not working. The inherent structure of the Democratic Party does not allow for anyone elected to be held accountable. New political vehicles and forums must be created, but they must be grounded in community and direct (or “liquid”) democracy.

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Instead of just coloring inside the lines of the terms “representative democracy” has set for the present, “Left” politicians should instead be looking around and working in coalitions to plant grassroots seeds for the direct democracy of the future.

Anything less is Liberalism.
The future we want to see will not be legislated into existence, as supplemental as legislation can be.

There is more untapped potential in the people than in Washington.

We need to help our folks have an imagination about the future and let prefigurative politics lead the way.
The quote below is crucial.

If certain political forces do not take heed (and quickly), we will be “faced with the unthinkable.”

An introduction to #municipalism (please go in with an open mind).

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As more systems collapse, it will become even more important for us to find people we can trust, and carve out physical space and infrastructure in which we can begin to live without bosses and landlords, and in balance with non-human nature.

There is a need for eco-communities.
How can those wanting eco-communities 1) find each other, 2) build trust, 3) find locations for decommodified land and housing, 4) pool resources and fundraise, 5) manage projects and resources transparently and democratically, and 6) securely connect and federate with others?
Re: #1, as of now, most people are using Twitter, IG, FB, Discord, Reddit, etc., to do this. While these apps are popular, they are also highly centralized, and subsequently less safe and/or secure. We do not control them, and they are also not designed around (direct) democracy.
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Sep 27, 2022
We need principled and respectful polemics – not passivity and people-pleasing – when it comes to discussions around strategy in these times.

We need to be making cases for holistic movement-building and not leaving so much to chance under such disjointed, fragmented conditions.
We shouldn’t shy away from tough convos about certain organizational vehicles and approaches (what they do and don’t do). And we shouldn’t keep leaving everyone’s respective focuses in “buckets.”

We must figure out how to connect all of the focuses under world-building projects.
And by “world-building,” we mean “building a new world in the shell of the old one.” Ensuring that “not relying/waiting on the state” means more than just reactive charity masked as “mutual aid.”

That it means infrastructure for a parallel social, economic, and political system.
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Jun 25, 2022
Many still refuse to interrogate what they consider the basics of “life” or “society” (re: “America,” capitalism, hierarchy, etc.), no matter what.

Because to go back to “Step One” (re-trace humanity’s “steps”) and interrogate feels like a lot of “work” with scary implications…
Why go explore “over there” if it’s just going to unearth and even delegitimize so much of what you’ve built your identity and life around?

Isn’t it easier and better to just hold on to the mythologies and facades, even as they’re unraveling and crumbling in our very hands?

No.
As a matter of fact, to try and hold on to those “integral and assumed things that never really did serve [you] all that well” is a futile attempt to prolong the inevitable: systems collapse.

Not only this, but it also leaves you unprepared for what is to come on the other side.
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Jun 24, 2022
Everything you’re seeing right now is not just an outgrowth of the Supreme Court of the United States.

It’s an outgrowth of the nation-state model itself.

Time to move beyond this state, and states in general.

Time to usher in a direct democracy.

For a democratic, free world.
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Jun 24, 2022
A real “democracy” would be direct (unlike representative “democracy” under capitalism), and therefore wouldn’t allow for social systems of domination to thrive like they do in our current society. And the rule of the young by the old is called “gerontocracy” (for those curious).
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Jun 9, 2022
“Left unity” is a farce, not only because a monolithic “Left” doesn’t exist, but because “Left” is also defined by what millions with varying ideologies are AGAINST, not FOR…

Many find the “Left” so exhausting because they insist on holding on to an illusion in “big tent” orgs. Image
Those who know better need to:

1) Define (and stick to) their *core* principles and objectives (which go beyond mere sectarian categories or labels).

2) Begin building with people who are on the same page around principles and objectives.

3) Win “the people” over via practice.
Revolutionaries have been talking about this for decades.

When will we listen?

#DualPower

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