limette [she/her]
A ‘united world’ at the moment would simply mean strengthening the global status quo, which is a neoliberal one. The largest multi-national organizations like the European Union are all neoliberal in nature. Therefore, devolution is in our interest to weaken those organizations’ power.
The Popular Front in Spain in the 1930s?
Isn’t this literally the most cited example against left unity by pretty much everyone involved? The SocDems got couped by the communists, Trots & anarchists executed by the communists from the anti-ML side, and the anarchists fucked up and sucked shit at fighting a war, and the SocDems didn’t pursue any radical program from the ML side.
Things are wonderful in Belgium. The PTB-PVDA is gaining in the polls pretty much consistently, especially in Wallonia, and the Medicine For The People facilities have been a great help during the COVID crisis. Not a ton else to say other than they’re a great party and have done amazing to reform so much in the past decade.
the main loss is that right wingers dont stumble in to get fucked with
I know a lot of people here have negative opinions of China, and even I have negative opinions of how they treat their own citizens (not interested in debating it; I don’t think it’s some hellworld but it ain’t the cuddly place some of y’all make it out to be) but anyone who doesn’t believe this is dumb as shit. China gets their resources, such as oil, by trade. They got Ethiopian oil by building up infrastructure for Ethiopia. The US gets its resources, such as oil, by invading nations and killing millions. One is objectively better for the world, and in fact a net positive rather than a lesser evil in terms of their impact as a superpower.
Again, it doesn’t matter what you think of their internal affairs, China’s conduct as a superpower is a net positive.
Here’s my beloved Yanis speaking about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBgbYQ5QAM0
Fun fact, the Green Party’s most loyal base of support is… indigenous people! Damned privileged indigenous people, not voting for Democrats to run them off their land nicely.