I see, so he’s not criticizing MLs as a whole, just the large number that don’t follow their own principles. That makes a bit more sense.
However, from my perspective I’ve hardly ever met any that seemed to have consistent principles. The only core idea seemed to be whatever China does is good. So it’s a bit interesting that Palestine is finally able to break the illusion for some people. Kinda the same for a lot of former supporters of the west. I guess seeing the brutality so clearly makes it harder to swallow the lies we’re inundated with.
Yes the amount of actual anti-imperialists who don’t just oppose genocide becuase it conveniently aligns with their national interests are steadily getting filtered out. We had a great moment recently with all the American surpremacists supporting Graham Platner doing mass murder in Iraq, and now all the China supporters. I was very pleasantly surprised by TheGrayZone condemning the resolution though.
I see, so he’s not criticizing MLs as a whole, just the large number that don’t follow their own principles. That makes a bit more sense.
However, from my perspective I’ve hardly ever met any that seemed to have consistent principles. The only core idea seemed to be whatever China does is good. So it’s a bit interesting that Palestine is finally able to break the illusion for some people. Kinda the same for a lot of former supporters of the west. I guess seeing the brutality so clearly makes it harder to swallow the lies we’re inundated with.
Yes the amount of actual anti-imperialists who don’t just oppose genocide becuase it conveniently aligns with their national interests are steadily getting filtered out. We had a great moment recently with all the American surpremacists supporting Graham Platner doing mass murder in Iraq, and now all the China supporters. I was very pleasantly surprised by TheGrayZone condemning the resolution though.