Demonization is moral absolutism. It is to brand someone with a supernatural evil status to justify treating them as “the other.” It is dehumanization.

There is nothing magical about gaining class consciousness that makes you fundamentally better than the people who have not. Having better morality does not make you a superior type of human. If you approach the proletariat with the intention of “saving” them like a missionary would you are not helping the cause. It is just another form of the “white savior” complex.

I want every imperialist soldier to cease to be. If I could snap and they would all die I wouldn’t hesitate. I don’t want them to die because they are “evil” or because they need to be punished for their crimes. I want them to cease being because it would further the cause of communism.

Punishment, Evil, Demonization, Othering these are all reactionary, idealist nonsense.

4 words: Congress for Cultural Freedom.

nah. just short term speculation.

Oh fuck! sorry. I must have mistaken you for someone else. HEY EVERYBODY! HES HERE. The one true leftist! The holy reincarnation of Marx who has never done anything to assist capitalism. He will lead us to communism by telling us who is evil and beyond redemption and who is good and worthy of our efforts.

You saw the word “troops” and lost the entire plot. The post is not about reaching out and making friends with reactionaries or trying to make cops or troops into comrades. The post is about Moral Supremacy. I mentioned troops because the topic is a lightning rod for moral supremacists. (and it worked!)

Demonizing is the act of labeling a person or thing as supernatural evil. Evil is not a materialist concept. Demonization is inherently reactionary. A demonized thing is irredeemable and inhuman. This is something that can only be done if you have an idealist or spiritualist mindset.

Demonizing comrades because of their past as enforcers of capitalism is not the behavior of a comrade. A comrade who was a goon for capitalism (a cop or a soldier same thing) is still a comrade. Their actions before gaining class consciousness do not define a comrade. What we do to oppose capitalism and imperialism is what defines us as comrades.

Does that mean I expect troops or cops to become comrades? no. The people with the most reactionary thinking are inherently attracted to join the police and military. If it was up to me all they would all get a one way ticket on Tito’s Coal Mine Tour. Should we focus our agitation on them? fuck no. You get better results agitating laborers.

But if one should choose to change sides? They shouldn’t have to hide who they used to be because of an idealist mindset that refuses to believe that people can change. They may have useful information and skills that you can only get by being in their position and we will not get that out of them if they are hiding.

Should we trust them? no but we shouldn’t trust anyone. Every new comrade is a potential wrecker or fed. Every new comrade has brain worms that need to be killed and extracted. We should be pushing and testing our comrades all the time to be sure nobody is harboring bigotry, liberalism, idealism, or supremacy.

And that includes Moral Supremacy like “the ex-soldier who teaches commies to shoot guns build tunnels and avoid being seen by drones did bad things. so even though all I do is read theory and post on the internet, I’m a better communist.”

I think you are misunderstanding what material conditions are. It isn’t just wealth, “material conditions” are all the factors that influence the situation. Most of the time financial security is a major factor in peoples thinking but it isn’t the only thing. Some people don’t believe that joining the military means killing children because their unique conditions are flooded with imperialist propaganda and the truth hasn’t hooked in their brain yet.

How is this unaustralian? Watching an episode of its always sunny and then using it as a guide to make a quick buck sounds like peek australian culture.

I think of the story of the “last emperor of China”

You brought this story to my attention a little wile ago and it has made a big impact on my thinking. (It made me cry a little.) Obviously we don’t have the time/resources/capability to reeducate every reactionary but it really changed my mind on the limits of redeemability. There is no “too far gone” there is just “not enough time” or “not an efficient use of resources.”

I’m not defending the troops. I am saying that troops are humans and just as capable of changing into class conscious beings as any other human. If you think there are people who are immune to the effects of their material conditions you don’t understand Marxism.

Tying to push the bounds of acceptable discourse? or trying to get fired in your last days of work?

And this is only day 12. Iran says they can go on for 6 months.

Thank Adnan Husian he turned me on to Indi.ca

https://indi.ca/ramadan-war-8-9-its-all-downhill-from-here-inshallah/

A break down of the overall picture for days 8-9. Its closer to poetry than analysis.

Should have said you are a conscientious objector. That or claimed force majeure.

3 Boats trying to run Hormuz got droned.

https://www.reuters.com/world/cargo-ship-hit-by-projectile-strait-hormuz-crew-evacuates-2026-03-11/

This article is trying to tell you “China evil” by telling you they investigate corruption and hold people to account for abusing their position for personal gain.

The CCDI is an anti-corruption body. Wouldn’t you prefer your elected officials and public servants who were engaged in corruption were investigated? Wouldn’t you prefer that individuals who were engaged in corruption in your country were held in custody while the depth of their crimes were fully investigated instead of being let out to destroy evidence or flee justice?

Fucking stupid article.

I can’t imagine the 99% of Iranian diaspora even going back to rebuild. They are out there cheering and “protesting” but if they get what want it wont change their life at all. They will still have to go to their shitty job and pay their mortgage. All that will happen is that they wont have any hate to focus on to help them accept the shitty conditions of life under capitalism.

I wish there was a way without destroying Iran for them to feel the crushing weight of the false hope they built their lives around turning into anticlimactic weight around their neck. Instead most of them will be more bitter and insufferable than before when this war is over.

Hezbollah should never have gone along with the “ceasefire.” I’m glad they have a second chance to make things right.

They have reserves equal to 100 days of net imports. Only 50% of their oil comes through Hormuz at the worst. So they have 200 days… to find alternative sources for oil or to cut consumption of oil.