BrokebackFountain [none/use name]
Just to add a funny piece of history to the idea of the idea of the cia intentionally splitting ‘leftists’. Back in the day the bolshiviks had an agent of the tsar high in their ranks that actively discouraged unity between the bolsheviks and the mensheviks - the intention being to stop the socialists from forming a larger political bloc. But from lenins point of view the main thing it did was prevent the bolsheviks from taking on the internal contradictions of the mensheviks.
This unity of the left that people fight for nowadays is a false unity based on ignoring internal contradiction instead of struggling on it and navigating it. If anything was a cia project I would say it’s the tendency to build false coalitions strife with internal contradiction that are bound to fall apart from the seems at the mere presence of any meaningful hostile external factor ( if these forms don’t already disassemble themselves before hand).
John Kerry
realize that this pseudo-woke “work is work” bullshit only works for people of the middle class in the imperial core. in the rest of the world proles are little more than slaves and “wage-labor” turns into “wage slavery” real fast. how can you watch shit like this and still think it’s cool to romanticize the exploitation of the proletariat.
I feel like part of that validation/ affirmation from cis men might be commodification instead of genuine respect. E.g. I’ve had known many cis people personally that treat me cool to my face but behind my back are the absolute worse.
Like the trope of the cis guy that will be nice to you when they want to get in your pants but would deny being interested in you when if the subject comes up to your friends.
If you agree with the need of a state to combat reactionary elements and think that when the proletariat state looses it’s utility in that purpose it should dissolve that doesn’t put you in a third way. That just makes you a marxist leninist.