Comradeship // Freechat

if he can work at disney then this means you guys either live in the US, france or Japan and if you’re a communist in those countries there is bigger fish to fry than worrying about the moral consequences of selling mickey mouse shaped donuts

rents gotta get paid, direct your ire at the CEO

Almost all economic activity in global north countries will at least partially be redirected into murder at some level. There's no need to get hung up on specifics unless you have a clear goal like the BDS movement, which can be very effective if done properly.

I'm not gonna tell people where they should personally draw the line in their own lives, considering the relationships of dependency they can be in and so on.

But if I were to attempt a generalization on the subject, I'd say a good litmus test for crossing a line is: In the struggles for liberation (anti-imperialism, decolonization, class struggle), is a person doing a role that directly contributes to the wrong side of it and which distinctly benefits them for doing that particular role? (ex: they are a cop working for a capitalist state, so are part of the enforcing class; they are a soldier working for an imperialist state; they work on weapons manufacturing for an imperialist state). In other words, in "class war" for example, are they helping wage war against the working class (even if they aren't making the executive calls)?

In this framework, simply working at an entertainment company that has some business ties to imperialism would not mean much if they are working class, considering 1) how many steps removed they are from waging imperialist war and 2) that they are generally going to be seeing the bare minimum for work put in, since they are working class. As opposed to like, if they were an executive and had a somewhat direct relationship between the imperialist deals they push for and the material benefit they see.

That said, what about consequences of crossing such a line? Being seen as "evil"? Cutting such people out of one's life? I think the most immediately practical takeaway is simply understanding that due to where their interests lie, they should be assumed to act like they are on the wrong side and that their position may sometimes help explain their stubbornness or apathy when hearing arguments in favor of liberation. And that if/when broader confrontation is had, it is safer to assume they will be in the way than to think you can talk them into standing aside.

Depends what they do. If they mop the floors then no. But if they are influential to some degree then yes you are “allowed” to feel weird about it.

Do they play a character? Because being a character actor at the park is a nightmare based on everything I've heard. It's not like their working for the MIC, just the MOUSE.