• Midnight@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Ultimately, there’s no reason the strategies of voting and direct action can’t both be applied together. One does not cancel the other out.

    It’s like you didn’t even look at your own pamphlet. It backs up his exact statement.

    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Why is it necessary? Wouldn’t direct action be sufficient for change?

      You forgot the next sentence:

      The problem is that so many people think of voting as their primary way of exerting political and social power that a disproportionate amount of everyone’s time and energy is spent deliberating and debating about it while other opportunities to make change go to waste. For months and months preceding every election, everyone argues about the voting issue, what candidates to vote for or whether to vote at all, when voting itself takes less than an hour. Vote or don’t, but get on with it! Remember how many other ways you can make your voice heard.