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Do you (or i) even understand what is a western marxist? Also about china (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by salim@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I first heard about it through Gabriel rockhill when he was invited in the deprogram, then i kept listening to other videos he made on the topic, i didn't read his or lusordo's books unfortunately, but I think the idea is clear enough for me (maybe)

Basically it includes every left leaning person in the west that poses as marxists (or anticapitalists) but act anticommunist and pro western, they're also revisionists replacing dialectical materialism with bourgeois science and bougeois ideologies,

The first time I noticed the usage of that term outside of Rockhill, was in an Instagram reel about China, then in a horrible red pen video that is also about China, it was so weird for me bc the usage was empty of all substance,

It feels like it's used to shame people about thinking that China is revisionist more than actually serve as a valid argument, and doesn't correlate with the actual western marxist types like zizek or varoufakis,

It quickly became synonym to Ultra-leftist or chauvinist

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[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rockhill has moved away from the term "Western left" and switched to "Compatible left." (Its better to not use geographic terms for political tendencies) He uses it more of a description of institutions and schools of thought.

The western/compatible left are happy to engage in liberation theory and critique but not action and not even solidarity of those who take action against imperialism that has a chance of success. They are "as left as they come"... without it being a threat to the status quo.

Both zizek and varoufakis have engaged in imperialist accommodation. It would be more beneficial for people to use that form critique rather than just labeling other people but most internet leftists engaged in "debates" aren't exactly careful with their words.

[–] salim@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Exactly thank you