Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
“Those who dismiss electoralism and lesser evilism have a mistaken view of the proper role of electoral politics for anarchists and anti-capitalists. The goal is not to take control of the state and implement post-capitalist transition through state policy, but simply to choose the least bad available background against which to carry out the process of constructing a post-capitalist society. The process itself — our primary goal — is the interstitial construction process itself. Every argument I’ve seen against electoralism and lesser evilism has amounted either to ‘the worse, the better’ accelerationism, or to Stalin’s Third Period denunciation of the Social Democrats as ‘social fascists.’ I’ve never yet seen a plausible scenario for the former, or anything but hand-waving. The latter — equating mushy centrist corporate neoliberalism to actual fascism — reflects a total lack of contact with reality.” (01/01/25)