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  • ![“The ultimate goal of our oppressors is to limit our imagination about what is possible without them, so that we might never imagine more for ourselves and the world we live in. We can only imagine what is in front of us because the power structure decrees that there are no alternatives other than what currently exists. We humans have lived the alternative for tens of thousands of years. We are capable of building a free society, a brighter future, because we already have ideas about what that might look like. We know what societies without bureaucracies are capable of.”

    — David Graeber, cultural anthropologist](https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/c8163253-8234-4e1a-b269-6757b1562bee.png)

    It is people who continue to claim that humanity must be authoritarian are the ones who have no idea of how humans work and are ignorant of history.







  • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.nettoLate Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world•Karl Marx
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    7 days ago

    That’s literally what the phrase means.

    Don’t vote for the bourgeois parties just because they have a “perfect” chance of winning, vote for who best represents your interests, the candidates that actually want to fight back against the bourgeois, i.e. vote for “good”, even if their chances of winning aren’t perfect.

    Stop trying to argue for the sake of arguing. You’re just coming off as needlessly confrontational.


  • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.nettoLate Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world•Karl Marx
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    7 days ago

    I’m saying this in support of what Marx said, not against it. You’re arguing with spooks.

    The quote you posted is the essence of what “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” means.

    Vote for good instead of letting the fact they don’t have a perfect chance of winning stop you from supporting what is good.