Mao Zedong when he suddenly finds out the KMT that had been slaughtering communists in a civil war before the Japanese invasion forced them into a United Front was actually anticommunist: “Welp, pack it home fellas, this changes everything. Best let the Chinese people become slaves to a foreign invader.”
How did none of us check the Wikipedia page for Hamas before we supported an oppressed people
Pay no attention to the multiple Palestinian communist groups currently fighting against Israel
Marxists don't usually need to look at a CIApedia page to discern allies from enemies and who we should critically support or not because we have working memories and historical literacy.
Liberals use Wikipedia for their real life the same way you would use a video game or fandom wiki for a particular game or show
I'm shaking n crying. I wanted to support the Polish people during their Uprising but the Home Army was actually quite reactionary and anti-communist so maybe I shouldn't care about Warsaw getting massacred and burned to the ground.
(Conversely, if I were a lib, I would drop my support for resistance movements in France, Italy and Greece and implicitly condone the fascist status quo since Communist factions hold a lot of sway)
A reactionary movement can be progressive in the same manner a progressive movement can be reactionary. It is dictated by the historical and material conditions - in addition to the class character it embodies - the movement finds itself in and the events that gave birth to it.
How did these anti-communists get into power in Palestine? Did Israel maybe have a hand in it?
Let's take the westerners talking point of view for a second.
Gaza is an Islamic one party state dominated by Hamas and that Israel only functional democracy institution if the middle east.
Palestinian in Gaza are basically siding with Hamas because they are the only power player in the strips that can negotiate with Israel and the one providing social services.
Israel is a functional democracy that after years of healthy democratic process still manages to elect a more and more right wing party that basically ramp up their action to go beyond the red line for Palestinians and violating the Osla Accord.
I'm not going to side with some states that actively trying to displace people just because they have a functional democracy and some western values
I don't know this particular page, but Wikipedia "ideology" sidebar sections are pretty well known for Western chavanism editing bullshit. To add this to a sidebar, really we should have a source that says "one of the ideologies of Hamas is anti-communim", but the source is always a BBC article where one politician says something vaguely anti communist.
Don’t look at the EFF’s page worst mistake of my life
