Pragmatic Leftist Theory
The neolibs are too far right. The tankies are doing whatever that is. Where's the space for the people who want fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism, but realize that it's gonna take a while and there are lots of steps between now and then? Here. This is that space.
Here, people should endeavor to discuss and devise practical, actionable leftist action. Vote lesser evil while you build grassroots coalitions. Unionize your workplace. Participate in SRAs. Build cohesion your local community. Educate the proletariat.
This is a place for practical people to develop practical plans to implement stable, incremental improvement.
If you're dead-set on drumming up all 18,453 True Leftists® into spontaneous Revolution, go somewhere else. The grown ups are talking.
Rules:
-1. Don't be a dick. Racism, sexism, other assorted bigotries, you know the drill. At least try to default to mutually respectful discussion. We're all on the same side here, unless you aren't, in which case kindly leave.
-2. Don't be a tankie. Yes I'm sure you have an extensive knowledge of century-old theory. There's been a century of history since then. Things didn't shake out as expected, maybe consider the possibility that a different angle of attack might be more effective in light of new data.
-3. Be practical. No one on the left benefits from counterproductive actions. This is a space informed by, not enslaved to, ideology. Promoting actions that are fundamentally untenable in the system in question, because they fulfill a sense of ideological purity, is a bad look. Don't do that.
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It's wild to me that the US has some of the most lenient training requirements for law enforcement. That should be a 4 year degree at minimum, like the rest of the civilized world. I'm all for "defund the police", in the sense of reallocating a large portion of their funding for social workers and other alternative engagement resources, but some people do crimes and that has to be accounted for. "Local enforcement" is just sparkling mob justice.
Most times, I believe, leftists who speak of localized enforcement are discussing something more akin to sheriff elections (but with fewer powers to abuse) or policing-by-lot. But both of those rely very heavily on the 'militia mindset' that I've always found suspect in certain leftist strains - professionalism and specialization is an advantage of civilization, including in government, not something to be thrown away entirely simply because many institutions preferred to specialize for repression instead of impartial enforcement of democratically constructed law.