Obviously this man was an important anarchist thinker, but I think this is particularly relevant to anarchism right now in a US election year where this conversation will come up ad nauseum.
He stops short of decrying electoralism in general here, but makes the point that the milquetoast emptiness of the US liberals enables a rightward slide. What he says is short and to the point and avoids getting bogged down in wider issues. He acknowledges that “at least they’re not nazis” is an appeal of the liberals, but points out that is the only appeal.
I just think this is a good thing to have if you don’t want to type out this argument every time you see it, to point out that this has been happening for a very long time, and to hear a voice of sanity when every single liberal is yelling at you to stop criticising poor Joe or else we’ll get the fascists again.
Imho there is an insanely easy, albeit (for me) depressing answer: inertia and attention span. Its nearly impossible to get people to even click a button to push for a singular issue to be addressed, let alone build up a whole party.
I‘m sure it will be done at some point but people in general are tough to get to do anything and the americans have tons of laws against them, freedom of harassment - i mean speech, and so on.
I think the solution will come through push from the EU states and (like now with their privacy laws) they might follow without admitting that.