Sandals [none/use name]
90% of the people who get labeled as wreckers are just leftists with different opinions. It takes very little for us to fight amongst ourselves indefinitely.
I have nothing constructive to add, I just want it to be known that I was here.
If you’ve never been banned from a leftist space, did you even radicalize?
Alienating folks because they make a high wage is silly. If they work for a living then they likely identify more with you than their multi-millionaire CEO. Also, a post-revolution society will need individuals who are currently paid well under our capitalist system. Shunning potential class traitors moves them right.
Oh boy, please forgive me for the struggle sessions I may cause as I pursue a better world.
Labeling your leftist ideology after previous revolutionary leaders(ML, stalinists, maoists, trots, whatever the fuck) is a waste of time and divides us further. If a leftist ideology leads some form of revolution in the future it will likely be an amalgamation of selected old principles and new ideas that will generate a new label (x-ists) that will be more relevant. Just call yourself a communist or an anarchist (or an-com), and know what you believe in.
I don’t give a fuck about what dead fucking historical fuckers did or did not do. No discussion about the Holodomor will lead to a consensus. We live in a post-truth society and the bourgeois can afford as many scholars/think-tanks as they want. Arguing about previous communists regimes on the internet is not the best use of your time. Your 8 paragraph primary source cited essay will never convince a chud and wastes your time and energy. If someone wants to debate you about the history of some communist nation or character tell them to pound sand and argue the disparities of current material conditions. I’m not telling you to not study history, but stop having the same arguments over and over.
Everyone on this site is like “Lol don’t vote for Biden it’s just as bad as Trump”. Both of these guys may not let us vote in the future or round us up in camps but one of them is already showing signs of authoritarianism. American leftists aren’t ready for a revolution. We have no vanguard, and 80% of your local DSA doesn’t even own a gun. I don’t want to vote for Biden either because I’m sick of the DNC bullshit of “lesser of two evils”, but honestly a biden victory buys us more time. If you live in a deeply red state, fuck it vote PSL or Green (I’m in that boat and will cast my vote in your honor for La Riva), but honestly harm reduction is a practical philosophy that we should consider. We are not ready for fight, and the absolute best case scenario is a PMC-led neoliberal victory that will cost thousands of lives and induce incredible suffering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Ukt9LrvhQ
Edit: The ensuing struggle session from this post proving my first point would be funny if it wasn’t so goddamn sad for our cause
I never even listened to the podcast
These are the pamphlets we need
The conquest of bread makes some good points about the practicalities of revolutions, especially pertaining to food supplies (hence, like, the name and shit). Basically, “On the third day of your new country don’t spend all your time struggle seshing over the use of the oxford comma in the new constitution while people starve in the street”
There’s also a bunch of anarchist-y stuff about “free agreement” and people spontaneously forming committees for the distribution of goods which seems a little too optimistic/bordering on naive, but it’s a short read and very intelligible. Kind of an optimistic breath of fresh air in ole hellworld.