I sort of lost it on him. He said he supports anti communism because he's not ideological and I got triggered pretty heavily.
Being anti-communist is itself pretty damn ideological. Also capitalism is here to stay? Like WTF? Not shocking that a bit further up in the thread he's defending the use of pipelines and believes the "weaning off of oil" bullshit neolibs push all the time.
I really can't think of anything more ideological than "My ideology is here to stay, and I actively support people who work to squash ideologies that compete with mine."
buT caPitaliSM is HUman NAtuRe.
They will probably shit the bed this election, and I'm starting to think that's a good thing. May has completely tainted the brand by ensuring leadership is just her fanclub, Paul has somehow managed to make the party even more ideologically confused than it already was, and as of today it's entirely a party of Victoria yups and morons like this.
May is an anti communist with the economics understanding of a 12 year old. I was involved with the party for a while and I met her and went to parties with her and talked to her and like. I had her and her husband tell me straight faced that they would end the oil industry and replace it with remediation work... oil is like like what? 10% of the Canadian economy and an even greater percentage of our exports. So she is part of this weird liberal hippy pro capitalist cohort that is a pro capitalist environmentalist, but there are like 12 of those, so they had to pay lip servier to socialist rhetoric while working within the party to keep the influence out as much as possible. Paul is totally just a continuation of that.
So you have half the party being these guilty PMC douche bags and half being people like me who got duped by their socialist lip service and economically and in regards to imperialism those cohorts do not get along or have anything in common beyond environment = good. I think this was really inevitable as soon as she left the leadership position.
That party is such a hot mess it takes great effort for me to not dive down a psyop conspiracy when I think about it.
So she is part of this weird liberal hippy pro capitalist cohort that is a pro capitalist environmentalist
Those types are all around me where I am, they are insufferable as hell but I've at least been reaching a surprising number through constantly beating them over the head with explanations of how green capitalism serves only to misdirect them from any meaningful action and actually have converted a fair few. Most are still not convinced that actual revolution is the answer but at least some of them are getting there and at least a few have come right out and admitted that I'm right but still don't want to necessarily participate in one.
I figure if I can at least turn people away from being reactionary/actively counter-revolutionary in their ideology I guess it's something.
Once you get to the point where people acknowledge that a change is needed, then you can at least begin to discuss what the process of change looks like. I would be overjoyed if the parliament were 75% democratic socialists and 25% revolutionary socialists.
Yeah, one of my favorite moments this week was getting someone to completely abandon their support for liberal gun regulation (like the assault weapon ban) in the space of like 60 seconds. The one thing we have going for us is that most of these people have a decent moral compass, but lack any coherent ideological underpinnings to guide them, I'm pretty much convinced that given enough time with someone as a captive audience while I'm running my register I can turn them into a communist. It just takes a fuckload of patience and persistence.
There are no products which have to be made out of crude oil and later stages. Though making them out of oil is fucking cheap compared to the alternatives.
Too bad Lascaris didn't win the nomination, I would cancel my membership but I think its running out soon anyways and I don't want to bother emailing anyone. Edit: I can not figure out how to formally leave the party.
So far as I know party membership is on the honor system in Canada.
While it would have been nice if he had one, I think these divisions run pretty deep in the party and would have played out regardless. Although with him in the leadership it may have come out the other side a socialist party, which strikes me as pretty unlikely under the current circumstances.
