This anti-"infighting" circlejerk is getting annoying. Too many posts like this on the front page in the last few days. Calling people out for saying dumb shit is good (especially if it's imperialist propaganda) and arguing is fine. Nobody's interfering with actual organizing. Nobody's causing schisms within actual organizations for doing this. Nobody's undermining unity of action.
People with irreconcilable ideological aims (e.g., to create a worker's state or not, to structure a revolution around a vanguard party or not, to defend existing ML states or not, etc.) are inevitably going to argue, like they have since Marx's time. It's not COINTELPRO for fuck's sake. I feel like stopping "infighting" is going to become an excuse for shutting down discussions.
Stop being big babies who can't tolerate conflict.
Also stop using the word "LARP" to describe posting online. That doesn't make any sense.
I mean for a site that is explicitly trying to achieve left unity or something it's pretty bad that there are about three struggle sessions between tendencies in a day, not like that matters btw.
This anti-"infighting" circlejerk is getting annoying. Too many posts like this on the front page in the last few days. Calling people out for saying dumb shit is good (especially if it's imperialist propaganda) and arguing is fine. Nobody's interfering with actual organizing. Nobody's causing schisms within actual organizations for doing this. Nobody's undermining unity of action.
People with irreconcilable ideological aims (e.g., to create a worker's state or not, to structure a revolution around a vanguard party or not, to defend existing ML states or not, etc.) are inevitably going to argue, like they have since Marx's time. It's not COINTELPRO for fuck's sake. I feel like stopping "infighting" is going to become an excuse for shutting down discussions.
Stop being big babies who can't tolerate conflict.
Also stop using the word "LARP" to describe posting online. That doesn't make any sense.
I mean for a site that is explicitly trying to achieve left unity or something it's pretty bad that there are about three struggle sessions between tendencies in a day, not like that matters btw.