Pragmatic Leftist Theory
The neolibs are too far right. The tankies are doing whatever that is. Where's the space for the people who want fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism, but realize that it's gonna take a while and there are lots of steps between now and then? Here. This is that space.
Here, people should endeavor to discuss and devise practical, actionable leftist action. Vote lesser evil while you build grassroots coalitions. Unionize your workplace. Participate in SRAs. Build cohesion your local community. Educate the proletariat.
This is a place for practical people to develop practical plans to implement stable, incremental improvement.
If you're dead-set on drumming up all 18,453 True Leftists® into spontaneous Revolution, go somewhere else. The grown ups are talking.
Rules:
-1. Don't be a dick. Racism, sexism, other assorted bigotries, you know the drill. At least try to default to mutually respectful discussion. We're all on the same side here, unless you aren't, in which case kindly leave.
-2. Don't be a tankie. Yes I'm sure you have an extensive knowledge of century-old theory. There's been a century of history since then. Things didn't shake out as expected, maybe consider the possibility that a different angle of attack might be more effective in light of new data.
-3. Be practical. No one on the left benefits from counterproductive actions. This is a space informed by, not enslaved to, ideology. Promoting actions that are fundamentally untenable in the system in question, because they fulfill a sense of ideological purity, is a bad look. Don't do that.
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"Punching left"
Sorry, I don't think that bootlickers for fascist regimes are 'left' just because their favorite fascist regime has a coat of red paint.
lmao
I guess the genocides performed by the USSR and PRC are just Western propaganda, as is the criminalization of homelessness, joblessness, and labor suppression as severe as any capitalist state.
Ah, yes, the PEOPLE'S genocides!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_operations_of_the_NKVD#National_operations_of_the_NKVD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
You're nothing but a Nazi in red paint, bootlicker.
"If we don't record anyone as unemployed, there is no unemployment!"
A true Trumpian intellect we have here.
Fucking lol
"Please ignore us disbanding inconvenient unions and gunning down labor protesters"
A round of applause for the PEOPLE'S Fascist Pig here! 👏
"Left punching is when you point out genocide"
"If we stop counting the numbers the numbers go down"
I'm sorry that your only perception of reality is through government propaganda. I'm sure your fellow Nazis can sympathize, though.
"Everyone with a Polish last name is a secret Nazi"
Fantastic work from a Nazi playing apologist for genocide. Sorry, Nazi with a fleck of red paint. I know you lot are insistent about the paint.
The government announcing that unemployment is ended and conveniently unemployment insurance no longer needs to be paid out without letting anyone verify this is not 'on record', but I understand that a fascist bootlicker like you has trouble discerning reality from their favorite pleather sole.
Imagine saying this while repeating the literal Stalinist government line that has long been disproven both by Western sources and studies of the Soviet archives.
Imagine denying genocide, and then saying denying genocide doesn't matter because it was 80 years ago, at the height of the 'socialism' of the anti-proletariat red fascist polity you're defending.
You'd have to be some kind of Nazi to be that deep into bootlicking.