Not us Chapos specifically, but I see on reddit and fb a shit ton of actual vitriol spewn back and forth between MLs, ancoms, anarchists and others. To the point where they're banning and attacking others they deem too tankie or not woke enough. On here it's pretty dang inclusive. I haven't seen too much infighting, and who doesn't love the sarcastic jab every once in awhile?
The stuff that happened in Kenosha has me pretty dang shook, and it's not over. I have a friend who lives with his brother out in Kenosha, and this was minutes from his house. I live four hours away from Kenosha and I easily can see this going down in any city closeby me.
Right now it feels like the fascists outnumber us. Not only the out-and-out fascists, but there is a LOT of wishy-washy support for civility and police. When it gets down to physical violence and shooting from both sides, people won't distinguish the leftists from the nazis, they'll condemn both and want to go back to normal as quickly as possible.
So the only common struggle that we have is with each other. Socialists and anarchists both want to dismantle the capitalist system and achieve egality. We all want to keep this earth going for awhile, (well, except maybe for you posadists), and we all want to defend ourselves and defeat the fascists. We can only have the numbers high enough to do this if we can reach out, not only intersectionally and inter-ideologically, but in real life and in other social media spaces.
I could see this site getting large enough to have the strength to spread propaganda, infiltrate, and reach out. We should organize and develop strategies here (maybe have a separate community for it?) and try to get our ideals out into the world better. Because right now, it doesn't feel like too many people in the middle are ready to fight with us.
Idk, I just smoked for the first time in a week and this has been on my mind today.
I'd like to see more people rejecting the idea of tendencies altogether when they're not talking about the ideological line of specific real world organization. Like if you're a PSL cadre you can call yourself a Marxist-Leninist but basically nobody else should. I hesitate to even call myself a Marxist because for various reasons I'm not involved in any actual poltical work. I certainly don't descibe myself as a left communist even though that probably would match my beliefs most closely simply because that is not a political current in America whatsoever and having a nice little label for my beliefs could only really be useful for posting in the absence of actual praxis or involvement with a political organization that shares those beliefs. To paraphrase Matt, tendencies are just different styles of shitposting.
We really do need to abandon tendencies. All it does is entrench you into one singular idea of how we need to operate based on what one group or another did 100 years ago.