Leftist Infighting: A community dedicated to allowing leftists to vent their frustrations

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The purpose of this community is sort of a "work out your frustrations by letting it all out" where different leftist tendencies can vent their frustrations with one another and more assertively and directly challenge one another. Hostility is allowed, but any racist, fascist, or reactionary crap wont be tolerated, nor will explicit threats.

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To be “respectable” in the online left is to be imperialism-compatible. Being a serious Marxist requires breaking from it. (open.substack.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man I used like some of this guys writings but he has a serious problem with his idea that being pro-Russia is the only marker of a potential revolutionary (I’m totally over stating his position but it’s pretty damn close.) He disses people like Brian Becker, and parties like the PSL for not backing a Libertarian backed “anti war” rally, and is not open to any real discussion about it. The guy is real cozy with “patsocs” and dabbles in straight up reactionary Russian Nationalism on twitter. I back Russia over NATO in this war but this guy takes it too far, he takes right wingers are their word and sees actual rightitst as a better ally than leftists who are still fooled but could be brought to our side. I was once a lib that this guy would’ve written off and alienated with his rhetoric. It’s a shame this guy just doesn’t seem to understand that he is pushing a real OP rightitst line.

He even thinks Becker giving critical support for Bernie is some huge sin while he cozy's up to people who give critical support to Trump. He considers backing LGBTQ and drag shows to be “alienating the masses” showing he only cares about a small portion of the masses, or is stuck in a reactionary whole where that is the reality of the masses.

[–] Astroturfed 1 points 1 year ago

Russia is a capitalist nation, did this guy miss that memo? Russia attempting to invade Ukraine to steal their resources and maintain market share in the oil and gas industry is textbook imperialism. His support for that invalidates his entire viewpoint. Complete freaking clown.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure on the opp or not since some pretty famous Marxists the last century made similar errors before some of the big wars and had a century less of noise/propaganda to filter through. We do need an international anti-war movement, but it should be grassroots and notso funded by billionaires. The sentiment is 100pct there, lots of sympathy from bars to workplaces in even in the Imperial core, moreso in the periphery, real question is to make use of it, not overcomplicate things, but that's more for influencers, orgs etc who can project and get out there to come up with everything, not me.

I'd agree with you because RAWM is also funded by various big bourgeois factions (Peter Thiel comes to mind), just a bit more cloaked in anti-imperialism, imperialist anti-imperialism if you will, made to perfectly consolidate some power from the most reactionary parts of the petite bourgeois/bourgeois using some culture war stuff and what's left of the mostly gone anti-nuke movement as a lure to confuse. Its a simple playing every side that can be found, though not so simple, though by airing their complaints this time the bourgeois again push themselves deeper into fascism.

On diamat he must have done the standard western 3 stager that falls short of true analysis which goes through the 'dark night of the absolute', which I think was left off here if I were to wager, which is why on the surface it'd seem like its a critical support ala your usual anti-imperialist but imperfect theocracy or what not, but you look into it more, think of who in the imperial core benefits if this ran to its conclusion, if they'd truly be what they said, who is running this, how bourgeois movements tend to push the opposite of what they desire; Ex fighting for their illusory ill-defined freedom leads to the tightening grip of markets and development of fascism. RAWM is no threat to the core's machinations for big war beyond our nightmares, and is a good trojan horse should they need to gain control of the movement for any purpose, ironically even pro-war.