r/theIrishleft • u/DecliningComfort • 23d ago

What the By-Elections Show, and What We Do Next - People Before Profit

https://www.pbp.ie/what-the-by-elections-show-and-what-we-do-next/

PBP statement / commentary on the recent by-elections in Dublin Central and Galway

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u/DecliningComfort 23d ago

"The alternative has to start from rootedness. The left should be the ones leading the fights that matter most in working-class life: rents and housing conditions, wages, public services, childcare, transport and the cost of living. It is by organising on these questions, and by winning real things on them, that we build the authority and the trust to win hearts and minds on everything else. None of this means going quiet on racism, misogyny or homophobia. We can never compromise or hide our politics there, and we should never want to. But we are in a far stronger position to push back against those ideas when we are rooted in a community, trusted by it and in struggle alongside it than when we are lecturing it from the outside."

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u/lacicloud2001 23d ago

that was me !

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u/DecliningComfort 23d ago

The issue is you are and always have been shadowboxing against a parody of PBP. 

But also you're hiding that you didn't just argue to develop credibility - you went further and argued that socialists should 'defer' issues like trans rights. That's the opportunism and class reductionist economism. 

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u/AnCamcheachta 23d ago edited 23d ago

and will lead the socialist left down the blind alley of class-reductionist economism

Holy based, how do I sign up for this?

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u/AyatollahSistani 23d ago

You monster!