Why I’m pro-Russia & pro-Rage Against the War Machine: anti-imperialists can’t win with idealism
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When somebody rejects all of the practical paths towards fighting imperialism and class exploitation, on the basis that they feel we should be taking a purer path, then you had better make sure this other path is viable. If it’s not viable, and they’re saying this simply to complain rather than to offer a serious alternative, then you shouldn’t even entertain them. Because what’s the point of validating somebody who has nothing constructive to say? Unless an option is practicable, it’s not worth bringing up.
  • Black AOC
    4•1 year ago

    As well as the types of socialists who say they’re pro-China and pro-Russia, while continuing to act sectarian against RAWM. The Trotskyists, radical liberals, and Democrat tailists who share the “neither NATO nor Russia” stance have attacked the pro-Russia communists for working with the Libertarian Party. (I’m referring to the attacks on Rage Against the War Machine from the Trotskyist World Socialist Website, from Black Agenda Report, and from the ANSWER organizers who shared BAR’s content about RAWM.)

    I don’t give the first blue fuck about geopolitical analysis when the crackers insist over lying tongues and teeth that their domestic homies aren’t fascists. I’ve talked myself blue about the kind of monstrosity that the Mises Caucus is. At this point, if y’all really wanna ally yourselves with that? You want to tar yourself with that brush? You want to sleep with that pack of fleabitten dogs? Fine; be my fuckin’ guest-- but don’t expect me to, don’t expect mine to, and don’t expect to be taken seriously or welcomed as anything other than an opp when you come back.

    They work with you because your numbers give them the kind of credibility they’d never have gotten if it was just the reich-wing yahoos that the Libertarian party typically collects; and they will Long Knife your ass when it’s through. “You’re either with us, or you’re a $opposition_party_member” is ironically, EXACTLY the rallying cry of the democrats-- so forgive me if by now, I can’t see Rainer Shea as anything but bought, paid for, and staunchly-set opposition. Just another COINTEL agent. Same goes for anybody who wants to fix their face to say "the only way out is to ally with straight up fascists"– and if you can’t get with that, I don’t want you in my zone. Plain and simple. I’m not giving these people my back so they can plant some shit in it. I told y’all weeks ago I’d sooner tear your shit down than work with brownshirts, and y’all really turned around and picked the brownest shirts to back.

    Words can’t describe how disappointed in y’all I am, and how vindicated I feel with regard to saying “when a cracker picks their allies, they’ll always pick fash over the colonized.” Every, fucking, time.

    • SovereignState
      4•1 year ago

      Still with you on this 100% comrade, if it matters. It seems to me some (not itt… necessarily) are more willing to destroy the already existing anti-imperialist left and ally with rightists, racists and sex-pests than work on making those existing orgs (which actually practice fucking demcent like PSL and ANSWER) better. I’ve said enough on the LP now to write a novella and I’m rather sick of this conversation.

      • Black AOC
        6•1 year ago

        I quote Letter from a Birmingham Jail like twice a week nowadays. I see a whole bunch of so-called radicals deadass acting like King’s white moderate; and keeping it a buck it fuckin disgusts me. If this… Nonsense I’m seeing right now is the future of the Amerikan settler-colonial left, then that’s my sign that I’m better served trying to get the fuck out this part of the world and going… Literally anywhere else.