Paul Pelosi is a bad guy who does insider trading. I will say that the hammer attack was funny. It's even funnier when you learn that he was hit in the head with the hammer after the police arrived and were talking with the attacker. The police let the attacker hit Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer after they arrived. That is very funny.
However, adventurism is not good. Normalizing adventurism is not good. Right wing political violence is not good. As other people in the thread have pointed out, political violence is already normalized, it only a matter of who is doing the violence. The American right wing showing support for the Pelosi attack is only going to normalize right wing terrorism, it will not normalize proletarian violence against their oppressors. The problem is not jokes, the problem is the American right wing is endorsing the attack.
Lenin criticized the assassination of a reactionary autocrat politician as opportunistic and not an action supported by the working class. When the working class is to engage in political violence, the violence must be organized by the working class and grounded by political theory. Lenin tells us that adventurism is an absence of political theory and thus not revolutionary.
Paul Pelosi is a bad guy who does insider trading. I will say that the hammer attack was funny. It's even funnier when you learn that he was hit in the head with the hammer after the police arrived and were talking with the attacker. The police let the attacker hit Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer after they arrived. That is very funny.
However, adventurism is not good. Normalizing adventurism is not good. Right wing political violence is not good. As other people in the thread have pointed out, political violence is already normalized, it only a matter of who is doing the violence. The American right wing showing support for the Pelosi attack is only going to normalize right wing terrorism, it will not normalize proletarian violence against their oppressors. The problem is not jokes, the problem is the American right wing is endorsing the attack.
Lenin criticized the assassination of a reactionary autocrat politician as opportunistic and not an action supported by the working class. When the working class is to engage in political violence, the violence must be organized by the working class and grounded by political theory. Lenin tells us that adventurism is an absence of political theory and thus not revolutionary.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm
Yeah, this does nothing to steer libs off the "elect enough Democrats and we'll fix everything" path. All it does is embolden fascists.