… how do they expect to get things done?
Their goal isn’t to take over the state and reform it, but to build alternatives to it such as:
Dual power structures such as community mutual aid, worker cooperatives, and tenant unions that meet people’s needs outside the capitalist system and slowly replace it. Also, they’re more for strikes, blockades, occupations, and sabotage–anything that directly disrupts unjust systems or forces change without begging those in power.
We believe in building the world we want now in how we organize–democratic, non-hierarchical so that the means align with the ends. Also, some of us believe that when capitalist structures inevitably fail or crack (due to crisis, climate collapse, etc.) grassroots structures can scale up and step in.
Electoral politics are a trap designed to absorb radical energy into endless compromise and bureaucracy, rather than truly change the system. Trying to win power within a corrupt system just legitimizes it.
That said, some of us are pragmatic and support limited electoral strategies–like voting to stop fascists or pushing for policies that give people breathing room to organize like voting for eviction moratoriums while building tenant unions.
Sisyphus Shrugged 