I’ll bet more people didn’t show up for Harris because their favorite video game had an update on election day. We don’t see these shit memes shaming them, only the people who are against genocide.
What positions do you think I’ve taken that are anti-socialist? Fuck’s sake, one of the comms I run cites Marx and Kropotkin in the sidebar as recommendations for introductions to leftist theory.
For a supposed socialist, you sure spend a lot of your time screaming about them.
Let’s be real, here: if you were a CIA plant paid to create divisions in the leftist community, how would your actions be any different? At some point you may want to consider doing something other than just repeatedly airing your grievances about something that is already done.
Let’s be real, here: if you were a CIA plant paid to create divisions in the leftist community, how would your actions be any different?
Uh, I’d probably pick a very specific subset of leftist thought, engage in a great deal of doublespeak regarding “reformists”, “wreckers”, and “CIA plants” while simultaneously extolling the virtues of a “united front”, do everything I could to prevent unity with larger left movements, encourage attacking major left figures for being insufficiently pure, peddle grotesque denials of historical fact in order to drive a wedge between even leftists of the same schools of thought based on whether they want to acknowledge past crimes of various states, inflame both pro-and-anti-LGBT dogmatic sentiment in order to exploit divisions between progressive leftists (“No one who deviates from MY specific policy proposals on LGBT folk is an ally, and thus is a class traitor”) and reactionaries (“LGBT rights are a krakkker colonialist imposition on the third world”), and exacerbate existing splits by encouraging both sides to see their differences not as a matter of policy but of irreconcilable value differences?
As someone who claims to be only vaguely leftist because of a lack of attachment to specific forms of thought other than a generalized notion that capitalism needs to die (the sooner the better), supports everyone who isn’t a genocide-denying ML, acknowledges that in times of crisis - such as against literal Nazis - even MLs must be cooperated with if they are willing, supports major left politicians from Corbyn to AOC to Mamdani to Lula despite personal disagreements, acknowledges historical facts that are both pro-socialist and proto-socialist (“Anarchist Catalonia established a functioning socialist society even in the middle of a brutal civil war while fighting off fascists quite effectively! Let’s talk about the Levellers in the English Civil War!”) as well as historical wrongs (“The Red Terror is absolutely an example of brutality that can happen when people are agitated but not given reason to restrain themselves from committing arbitrary detentions and murders which contradict the core values of leftism”) and curiosities (“Socialist Labour dominated Israeli politics for the first ~30 years of its existence, despite their even-then-ongoing project of genocide”), and who criticizes non-MLs primarily for their proposed actions and strategies (like ‘let the fascists win’) rather than their values or desired policies, I suspect I’m not CIA material.
About the only things that I’ve got for “splitter” material is that I’m combative, self-righteous, and personally abrasive. And if that’s all it takes to qualify as a CIA plant, there must be a lot of CIA plants in these constantly-infighting leftist spaces.
Folks, OP is a well known anti-socialist who routinely creates messy drama. Nothing to see here, move along.
They do also post quite a lot of nice historical content, which I quite appreciate. Maybe go enjoy that.
I’ll bet more people didn’t show up for Harris because their favorite video game had an update on election day. We don’t see these shit memes shaming them, only the people who are against genocide.
“Anti-socialism is when you don’t want fascism”?
Come the fuck on.
What positions do you think I’ve taken that are anti-socialist? Fuck’s sake, one of the comms I run cites Marx and Kropotkin in the sidebar as recommendations for introductions to leftist theory.
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For a supposed socialist, you sure spend a lot of your time screaming about them.
Let’s be real, here: if you were a CIA plant paid to create divisions in the leftist community, how would your actions be any different? At some point you may want to consider doing something other than just repeatedly airing your grievances about something that is already done.
I’d say that about tankies discouraging voting.
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Uh, I’d probably pick a very specific subset of leftist thought, engage in a great deal of doublespeak regarding “reformists”, “wreckers”, and “CIA plants” while simultaneously extolling the virtues of a “united front”, do everything I could to prevent unity with larger left movements, encourage attacking major left figures for being insufficiently pure, peddle grotesque denials of historical fact in order to drive a wedge between even leftists of the same schools of thought based on whether they want to acknowledge past crimes of various states, inflame both pro-and-anti-LGBT dogmatic sentiment in order to exploit divisions between progressive leftists (“No one who deviates from MY specific policy proposals on LGBT folk is an ally, and thus is a class traitor”) and reactionaries (“LGBT rights are a krakkker colonialist imposition on the third world”), and exacerbate existing splits by encouraging both sides to see their differences not as a matter of policy but of irreconcilable value differences?
As someone who claims to be only vaguely leftist because of a lack of attachment to specific forms of thought other than a generalized notion that capitalism needs to die (the sooner the better), supports everyone who isn’t a genocide-denying ML, acknowledges that in times of crisis - such as against literal Nazis - even MLs must be cooperated with if they are willing, supports major left politicians from Corbyn to AOC to Mamdani to Lula despite personal disagreements, acknowledges historical facts that are both pro-socialist and proto-socialist (“Anarchist Catalonia established a functioning socialist society even in the middle of a brutal civil war while fighting off fascists quite effectively! Let’s talk about the Levellers in the English Civil War!”) as well as historical wrongs (“The Red Terror is absolutely an example of brutality that can happen when people are agitated but not given reason to restrain themselves from committing arbitrary detentions and murders which contradict the core values of leftism”) and curiosities (“Socialist Labour dominated Israeli politics for the first ~30 years of its existence, despite their even-then-ongoing project of genocide”), and who criticizes non-MLs primarily for their proposed actions and strategies (like ‘let the fascists win’) rather than their values or desired policies, I suspect I’m not CIA material.
About the only things that I’ve got for “splitter” material is that I’m combative, self-righteous, and personally abrasive. And if that’s all it takes to qualify as a CIA plant, there must be a lot of CIA plants in these constantly-infighting leftist spaces.
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