Amid the escalations in our class conflict the Ukraine war has brought, the question that the communist movement has increasingly come to be battling over is: can we advance all the parts of our cause, while working with ideological elements that don’t share each of these ideas? Can we remain principled on social justice, workers rights, and all other aspects of our agenda at the same time that we collaborate with these elements on issues like anti-imperialism?
I’ve never seen Rainer defend Cornel West. I saw the opposite.