I disagree, organizations like the DSA or other left formations could be holding anti-war rallies and organizing publicly similar to what happened during the Vietnam and Iraq wars but they are not. The reason they are not isn’t increased repression (repression was much more brutal during Cold War era Vietnam, where dogs were sicked on protesters and protesters beaten by thugs regularly). The reason is reduced interest and a fractured, unprincipled left that cannot decide whether supporting imperial war is good or not so they have settled on an uneasy peace of not talking about it.

That uneasy, unprincipled moratorium on the Ukraine-Russia crisis amongst the Western left is cowardice and indicative of a fundamental weakness and failure in the principles of Western leftists and susceptibility to Liberal narratives. We desperately need a principled Marxist party that cuts through the unprincipled stagnation and gets directly to the heart of the issue: no world war, no arms shipments, no supporting Nazis and imperialists in an unholy alliance with western radlibs. Until WW3 is a more pressing issue for westerners than gas stove culture wars and other distractions they aren’t going to get it.