The US was pretty central in attempting to dismantle all the movements listed if not being the central antagonist. Patsocs in the west, but in the US in particular, use the language of right wing conspiracy theorists and labor aristocrats (ie: if you listen to Maupin and his buddies and read between the lines, their movement is very selfish/self-serving and puts the growth of Maupin's own middle class social strata above the needs of the rest of the country and international movement). It's been said pretty often that US symbolism is alienating to indigenous people, impoverished people, and other minorities, hence :amerikkka: . We don't need to tack an Abraham Lincoln head onto the wall of a hotel ballroom or appeal to a civic religion that was built explicitly on racism for it's own survival since the 1710s.
What hexbear and a lot of western MLs do is fine, I think. Celebrate 1890s anarchists and labor rioters who effectively changed legislation through sacrifice. Celebrate black nationalists who taught us that community is the important piece early western leftists were missing. Throw eggs at Browder. And celebrate indigenous land defenders who've done more to slow the 400 year march of capital than all western ML movements combined.
We already have our own mythology, we just don't leverage it in the manner of a unified movement, currently.
The US was pretty central in attempting to dismantle all the movements listed if not being the central antagonist. Patsocs in the west, but in the US in particular, use the language of right wing conspiracy theorists and labor aristocrats (ie: if you listen to Maupin and his buddies and read between the lines, their movement is very selfish/self-serving and puts the growth of Maupin's own middle class social strata above the needs of the rest of the country and international movement). It's been said pretty often that US symbolism is alienating to indigenous people, impoverished people, and other minorities, hence :amerikkka: . We don't need to tack an Abraham Lincoln head onto the wall of a hotel ballroom or appeal to a civic religion that was built explicitly on racism for it's own survival since the 1710s.
What hexbear and a lot of western MLs do is fine, I think. Celebrate 1890s anarchists and labor rioters who effectively changed legislation through sacrifice. Celebrate black nationalists who taught us that community is the important piece early western leftists were missing. Throw eggs at Browder. And celebrate indigenous land defenders who've done more to slow the 400 year march of capital than all western ML movements combined.
We already have our own mythology, we just don't leverage it in the manner of a unified movement, currently.