In our time of liberal fascism, where the Biden administration is indicting communists for doing anti-imperialist work while trying to use the RESTRICT act to codify this practice, the main “Red-Brown alliance” is the one between the liberal fascists and the “Marxists” who tail them. Our equivalents of the Strasserites, the element of socialists who allied with the Nazis, are largely the liberal tailists who claim to be “Marxists” while volunteering to be Democratic Party discourse agents. There are still the types who are right opportunists, yet they lack the kind of narrative power that the left opportunists have.
    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Yes that is a debatable point. It brings up once again the old concept of labor aristocracy and we have to ask ourselves to what extent do the material interests that have been formed in the imperial core even allow for the development of true revolutionary potential…

      I myself find that i alternate between doomerism and revolutionary optimism on this topic. On the one hand i am perpetually disappointed seeing how bribed and/or complicit the population of the imperial core is, their lack of class consciousness and solidarity with the oppressed peoples of the global south… but on the other hand it feels wrong and elitist to simply discard the majority of the western masses as inherently reactionary.

      Because how can one call onesself a communist if one does not trust in the masses? As a communist i am part of the masses, i am not above them, i am not better than them, i am not smarter than them, i just happen to have had my eyes opened a little earlier than the rest, and if i could come to the correct conclusions and learn to reject liberalism, idealism and reactionary prejudices then so can they.

      It would be easy to give in to the temptation to simply discard the majority of Americans as reactionary so that i could feel superior, especially as i am not American so i could pretend like my own country is somehow better, but frankly from what i’ve seen and experienced so far it’s really not.

      Sure, maybe their material circumstances will have to change first in some way before that kind of change can take place on a scale large enough to begin to make real difference, but it can and it will happen eventually.

      • Black Yeonmi Par𝕏@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        But how can one call onesself a communist if one does not trust in the masses?

        When one trusts in the global masses, but withholds that trust from those they know would sooner fuck up than properly allocate. i.e., Amerikans. Afaic, that’s just opsec. See, I am landlocked in Amerika. I’ve seen and lived this place’s callousness first-hand, gauged the atomization, broke bread and wallets for bail funds and commissary when no one else would. From that experience? I say ‘show and prove’. Words are air when settlers speak them.