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sometimes i feel very bad for the compatible/anti communist left because they will find out the Hard Way. (lemmygrad.ml)

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even if anti communist left is very useful to the empire and often collaborators with it, the truth is that they were/are/will be prosecuted too just like the tankies/”authoritarians”/communists/stalinists/leninists they hate so much.

i feel a bit bad for liberals too. theyre so caught up in anticommunism that they view nazis as participants in political freedom and democracy while only communists are the evil ones. however, they dont realize that they were also very much victimized by fascism and their enemies want to kill them, not engage in an election. this is why people defending Graham Platner are so stupid. why do you want to vote for someone not recognizing symbols that killed you too? liberals also saw death under the Totenkopf

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[–] TheRedWedge@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

The problem with building a movement to oppose imperialism from the inside is that the average core citizen has a much easier and safer path to securing their material needs by being a loyal subject of the empire in exchange for a small piece of the pie extracted from the global south. Imagine a US citizen who wants healthcare and education. What can your movement offer them that beats joining the military? Or how do you intend to sell ending the petrodollar to the american public?

In order to grow a large movement you will have to put yourself in a position where you are not fighting to end imperialism but merely to offer your fellow labor aristocrats an increase in the slice available to them or an easier path to claim the benefits of empire. This is what I mean by becoming the moderate wing of imperialism.

It is a conundrum and solving it by chipping away at anti-imperialism to get anarcho-nafoists who post xinnie memes on your side is not the right strategy. I understand that you want a revolution and as soon as possible preferably and being told that there is little revolutionary potential in the imperial core right now is shitty and frustrating but have some paitence. Conditions are not static and the world is changing. The past 10-15 years have been nothing short of amazing after the uncontested imperial domination that strangled the planet after the fall of the Soviet Union. The victoires of the anti-imperialist resistance around the world are bringing us all closer to a communist planet and your time will come too. In the meantime cheer for them and don't feel pressured into ceding ground to liberals.

Imperialism will fall. Communism will win, but not on terms dictated by the people who donate to nazi batallions so they can have their names signed on the munitions that get dropped on Donbas schoolchildren. Those are not "potential leftists" but intellgent labor aristocrats aware of their interests and how they align with the empire. Don't waste your time on them and instead accept that your movement will be limited for the time being and focus on the marginalized people who are blocked from accesing the benefits of empire.

And I'm not saying this from a position of shitting on you. I live in a very reactionary country at the empire's edge that will probably ukkkrainize and become openly fascist again before there is any chance to get better so it's not like I'm the revolutionary vanguard of the world either.