I was all into electoralism up until the 1-2 punch of Corbyn and Bernie getting screwed (and just straight up losing) within the span of 2 months. From there I thought electoralism still had it's place but was thinking more about how we'll never get to "vote" for socialism, and started leaning towards being an ML. And then recently, I'm just really down on the hope for any sort of internal change within the imperial core. I think change is going to have to be forced upon the global north by the global south. And even though Iive in the US, I just feel more and more disconnected from this place. I find I'm way more interested in what's going on in places like Cuba, China, Good Korea, Peru, Bolivia, India, etc. I find myself not even really caring about US politics except for when it comes to issues of foreign policy.
And in my observation, it feels like a lot of comrades here seem to be following this trajectory.
Of course as I move along this path, I still don't seem to have a really good feel on what I'm supposed to do, you know?
Is pushing an anti-imperialist movement within the imperial core worth it? I think it's the best thing we can do right now
Yeah, everything we can do to prevent the US from fucking with other countries is absolutely worth it. That said, the biggest protest in American history was in 2003 against the Iraq War and it didn't change shit so I'm very skeptical of the ability for us to change foreign policy calculus in the United States.
Everything builds on itself. Also, Iraq war protests were fairly divorced from labor organizing, any major protests in the next decade or so will have a very different relationship to labor. Without that, yelling in the streets doesn't do much
Agreed. And I want to make clear that's not to say we shouldn't do it—I was out there last year with the Iran protests—because what the fuck else are we going to do, I'm just not hopeful. Linking the labor movement with international solidarity is the way to do it, but once again I'm skeptical that American workers, the labor aristocracy built by decades of imperialist enrichment, is going to come out to do that.