anaisnein:

discoursedrome:

It’s interesting to see the competition playing out between “it’s so important that you vote in all the elections because of how much is at stake!” and “voting clearly doesn’t work and we need to adopt other tactics” (where “other tactics” implicitly means revolution or sustained mass protest or breaking windows or whatever, usually aiming for the former and hitting the latter).

My take is that civic participation without popular protest is probably going to be more effective than popular protest without civic participation, because the left is not large or popular enough to pull off the latter tactic, but the two mostly aren’t  drawing from the same “budget” so it’s not like you have to choose in the first place.

it’s not like you have to choose in the first place.