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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

I don’t know if I should say this, but it is becoming quite clear to me that Western leftists are more interested in moralizing the issues than to actually build a revolutionary movement. Perhaps this is why there are so few left wing movements left in the Western imperial core? I don’t think they actually want to win and take power. I’m not saying this is the main problem, but certainly worth thinking more about it.

Ok this doesn't make any sense in the context of voting for Biden and the Democratic Party, the left will NEVER win voting for the dems which should be clear to anyone who's been alive these last forty years

Biden's victory in 2020 obliterated the American left and the Sanders movement that gave it steam, ironically the only one moralizing here is the person demanding we vote for a genocider because Trump will hypothetically be worse or god forbid "unpredictable"

I am more than comfortable throwing the democratic party in front of the Republican bus and buying the left time to properly organize without the disgusting kayfabe of the DNC splitting our movement, if the dems are serious about their opposition to Trump than they will be forced to split the establishment and weaken the imperial structure overall and if they're just bullshitting and will happily go along with Trump's fascism then the swathes of radicalized youth that will create will aid our movement too

Either way that is far more strategic than making deranged ahistorical comparisons with the CPC's relationship with the KMT during the Sino-Japanese War

this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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