Image from Tampa Bay TimesThanks for reading Rainer’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. When Marxists Speak Out wrote their recent May Day statement The Escalation of the World War Danger and the Need for a New Communist International
I was pretty surprised about it, on reddit it was also pretty hot topic.
Though i seriously don’t see what’s hot in it, no ML here probably sees them as anything other that they are, but we should also support or at least not attack antiwar movements in the imperialist states.
It is an “anti war” movement funded by Peter Theil and backed by a Libertarian party that wants the “Civil Rights Act” removed. It is a op and absolutely no ML should seriously support it.
I read their program for that action and there was nothing libertariany in it. I don’t doubt they are overally horrible people so you should count your fingers after handshake, but i would follow two significantly important Lenin advices: support the antiwar movements in the imperialist countries, something even more important now with the decaying global hegemony getting desperate than when it was first said after WW1; and second, while doing that be very careful you don’t get dragged into the bog.