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  • Öcalan is a healthy observation because Rojava is a contemporary movement with many vying interests. When people look at the history of Kurdish struggle they begin seeing how often there was collusion with imperial interests, how nationalism varied, how different states exploited ethnic Kurds. They can examine the faults and victories, how some groups had been excluded from the struggle (such as lesser representation of Assyrian, Turkmen, Arab and Yazidi minorities), the Turkish stance, pan-Turk nationalism, the Assad dynasty, and so on.

    Reading about resistance fighters, I found many considered themselves Marxists first, or else Kurdish. I found how different the internationalists were from the YPG and PKK. Found the US collaboration with the SDF, the fight between US-Turkey-Syria over resources in Rojava, how or whether the Kurds are regarded as Syrian separatists, the expulsion of ISIL in Rojava, and so on. It’s a very complex geopolitical situation that anyone can benefit from understanding more of.



  • I really appreciate this context comrade, and you’re correct absolutely.

    I think the reaction that we and I have here on lemmygrad is just seeing so many posts that revel in Ukronazis dying, glorifying the violence not having context or nuance like what you say, “based putin” and just making a sick joke out of it and punching down like liberals. It feels very western Marxist and it feels like it comes from the privilege of not ever having intense violence in one’s life, not ever losing a home and becoming un-housed. War is really fucked, like really fucked. It’s almost like people find it amusing or get joy from war here sometimes.

    I think it’s disingenuous to come at folks who are concerned, and may not understand the context as much as you and others, as denying critical support or being contrarian, or whatever is being said (my words not theirs), but then ignore the obvious jingoist tendencies that are being exhibited here.

    it’s right to criticize inaccurate statements like Russia is lesser imperialist, but for some reason the criticisms of the Putin fervor never come up, and are shamed if they do.


  • how do you support any workers in this conflict, not being involved? foreign money is siphoned to the oligarchs. unless you have some expert connections directly to Ukranian workers, the best way may be to be openly critical of jingoist narratives such as parroted about Russia, differentiate from the Ukranian state and Ukranian workers and conscious leftists any time someone simplistically generalizes Ukraine as “Ukronazi” or “Banderites” or “NATO puppets” etc, and to directly support Russian, Balrusian, Polish and Baltic communists, who all are impacted strongly in this conflict.



  • Ukraine has the agency and self determination to be it’s own fascist state. Banderites have existed well before 2014 (or even 2007 when first evidence of CIA meddling began). Germany is a colony of the USA and somehow they have de-nazified, likely due to their stronger economic power. Ukraine has been destabilized economically so bad since '95 that they gave in to economic pressures to the vying powers. They had every opportunity to align with Russia and China as was shown with economically equivalent Belarus. Was the choice to align with the US “forced” on them as a colony, or was the Ukrainian government always aligned with US-Neo-Nazi interests? How did events in Bosnia influence their decisions (if at all)?


  • not sure why my comments are not posting/getting deleted but i do outdoor labor and am too tired to repost my more detailed reply so just gonna say I agree. and the threat of both ukraine and iran’s ruling classes being annihilated positioned themselves as national heroes who could freely promote reactionary thought and frame it as national identity



  • agreed. people are literally siding with Russian capitalists over Ukranian workers. taking simplistic, unprincipled stances on this… why? is it because liberals hate Putin so people have to be contrarian to spite them? Do they really believe every Ukranian in Ukraine is a Nazi and isn’t suffering in the crossfire?

    it’s so dogmatic, and un-marxist.




  • liberals are reactionaries. it’s in their interest to protect and enable fascists when their class interests are challenged, and to only confront fascists as a competitor to their mutually shared class interests, which is the exploitation of the working class and their production. liberals recognize “legitimate” authority, authority aligned with their class interests. in absence of class consciousness, workers may align with fascists or liberals in varying circumstances, and consider themselves as part of this bourgeoise.



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    if people weren’t aware, raising children is used as a political strategy of fascism historically and presently. look up the “quiver full movement”

    whereas on the left there are tons of people that refuse to have children, maybe because it’s a hell world especially for intentionally marginalized folks (who are of course disproportionately leftists). or maybe they are associating overconsumption and overpopulation propaganda with their individual choices. or maybe they hate the institution of marriage and family and it’s state construction too much. idk

    but then, there are literally people who hate children?? and they’re moreso on the left. okay good luck with hating a defenseless and innocent little being i’m sure that’ll bring more unity to our struggle

    point is, the right has a concerted strategy on social reproduction. the left does not, and even sabotages it. the working class is alienated from their own determination of social reproduction. this is a key material concern that has divided along class lines through raw numbers.

    I feel as leftists we need to be much more accommodating to familial struggle. I don’t feel stable to have family either, so to me helping create power to benefit working families is a crucial tactic, regardless if I ever have one myself. we need to be in control of our social reproduction because it’s literally an act of survival, and the people who want to end us know that as well.


  • this is the honest comment, what do we really know? workers are dying over bourgeois territorial control. does anyone here actually know someone from Donbass? like do they feel liberated yet as their homes lie in further ruins? wonder how they’ll get their lives back together after losing their economic/industrial center and their families through an entrenched DMZ border threatening nuclear standoff.