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Imagine thinking that making abstentionism posts is Praxis.
Anarchism necessitates democratic processes. Arguing that democracy is incompatible with anarchism requires you to choose to use an overly complex definition, and the resulting rhetoric you need to engage in is hamstrung by the extra reframing steps you have to go through for people to understand your position.
You can engage in direct action and also vote at the same time. Advocating for extensionism is itself a way of engaging in electoralism, and so if engaging in electoralism is bad on principle, then advocating for abstentionism is bad as well.
Good job being useless.
You're conflating democracy with electoralism.
Anarchism requires democracy. But liberal representative democracy isn't the only democratic system. So it can be denounced by anarchists, while they are still in favour of democracy.
Propaganda is praxis.
Wow, look at all these hairs you're splitting to justify garbage political tactics.
Are you seriously insinuating that the idea of a liberal representative national democracy (with a police force, judges and parliament) is in line with actual anarchist thought? Because it sure seems like you are by claiming I'm "splitting hairs".
No.