It is impossible to speak seriously about Marxism in the West without incorporating the role of Christianity in each social formation. “Western Marxism has taken a historic distance from the concrete experiences of socialist transition in the Soviet Union, China, Viet Nam, and Cuba.”
I would recommend reading this and sending this to any radlibs/DSA/anarchists you know
Their crits of the State Dept-friendly/Jacobin-style/Imperialist Left (who say things like "socialist countries aren't socialist, Sanders and Corbyn are the only true socialists") seem pretty accurate
I don't totally agree with the connection to catholicism, it seems tenuous on some points (since I'm neither white nor catholic; also wouldn't the US being a predominantly protestant nation kind of undermine that? idk)
Not sure what they were on about with Bolivia, definitely written before the triumphant comeback of MAS and also completely ignores the imperialist meddling from the US that led to the coup in the first place.
Still, the thing that stuck out to me was the martyr analogy, which was probably the strongest connection, since Western Left (and radlib) orgs love to turn resistance into an end in and of itself, and do fetishize defeat.
As an anarchist, I felt called out at first, but then I remembered that some "anarchists" can't be happy that some people have liberated themselves from neoliberal capitalism and have functioning decentralized local community rule ( like Vietnam )
Their crits of the State Dept-friendly/Jacobin-style/Imperialist Left (who say things like "socialist countries aren't socialist, Sanders and Corbyn are the only true socialists") seem pretty accurate
I don't totally agree with the connection to catholicism, it seems tenuous on some points (since I'm neither white nor catholic; also wouldn't the US being a predominantly protestant nation kind of undermine that? idk)
Not sure what they were on about with Bolivia, definitely written before the triumphant comeback of MAS and also completely ignores the imperialist meddling from the US that led to the coup in the first place.
Still, the thing that stuck out to me was the martyr analogy, which was probably the strongest connection, since Western Left (and radlib) orgs love to turn resistance into an end in and of itself, and do fetishize defeat.
As an anarchist, I felt called out at first, but then I remembered that some "anarchists" can't be happy that some people have liberated themselves from neoliberal capitalism and have functioning decentralized local community rule ( like Vietnam )