Expressing your ideas in the stupidest way possible so you can act smug when people “don’t get it”

💁‍♂️ 🦋 Is this Hexbear?

Apparently it’s not dead yet: https://wiki.infrawiki.us/index.php/Special:NewPages

actually successful Western Communists such as Jackson Hinkle and Infrared

ASWC: Actually Successful Western Communism

Oh dear.

• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/InfraWiki
• https://wiki.infrawiki.us/index.php/ProleWiki

That’s no reason not to post Inside China Business’/Kevin Walmsley’s videos, though, right? We post all sorts of stuff from all sorts of liberals, but we’re not endorsing their liberalism.

Now I wonder if your saying “this entire site is filled with ultras, third-worldists, and campists” wasn’t based on a misconceived notion that to post content from someone is to subscribe to or endorse their worldview.

Why rabbit hole?

• https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5643768
  • https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5643674
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Swirling in my head are a lot of comments, thoughts, and questions about labor unions, especially in the imperial core, and even more especially in Burgerland. All I’ll say now is: shaky critical support for anticommunist yellow unions, which is what virtually all Burgerland unions are. I’m curious what modernish-day Marxist/ML thinkers and/or books there are on the topic.

I wonder how many were misled. Maybe 20% fled the country; presumably many more would have if they had the means. Some are being pulled from streets and pushed to the front lines. Some are fascists who needed no misleadership. How many does that leave, the ones who were/are duped?

this entire site is filled with ultras, third-worldists, and campists

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robbing the US taxpayers for years

This bit I disagree with because 1) The US taxpayer doesn’t really fund anything, and 2) Ukraine isn’t getting hand-outs but lend-leases.

Yeah, but libs can’t (read: won’t) read these because they’re not MB/FC-approved.

I’ve answered this before. Copypastaing myself.

Honest question from a non-communist, based on your reply here. Does one need to support Putin to be a Marxist?

In a word, no. In a few more words, support for Russia (not Putin, as historical materialists don’t subscribe to great man theory) is only a partial, temporary, tactical one, in the context of imperialist liberation. Russia is still a capitalist state, though, so it’s a two stage strategy: first liberate colonized bourgeois states from colonizer states, and second revolution within those liberated bourgeois states.

Russia is an interesting case: it has already liberated itself from the post-Soviet “shock therapy” neocolonizers. This occurred during Putin’s administration, which is why he is especially hated by the US. So now the support for Russia is in the context of keeping the colonizers from recolonizing it, and supporting Russia to the extent that it helps other states liberate themselves. But Russia isn’t trying to “liberate” Ukraine, at least not all of Ukraine. It’s trying to resolve the genocidal attacks on the people of the Donbas, and it’s trying to resolve the imperialist military expansion at its border.

• Robert Parry, 2015: The Mess that Nuland Made
• Jeffery Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace

Also, Ukraine really does have a fascism problem and has for a long time, and the coup government has materially supported it.

• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
• Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
• Consortium News, 2022: Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev
• Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
• History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

He’s got no flag right now. Taking the weekend off break from imperialism, I guess.

The Ukrainian flag isn’t on his Xitter profile anymore 🤔

I’m gonna need that link 1,000 times because libs are going to cry debt trap! 1,000 more times.

This reminds (and dates) me: when the Twin Towers fell, the most patriotic thing to do was go to the mall.

How 9/11 convinced Americans to buy, buy, buy

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We have propaganda at home.

Huh? It’s the South China Morning Post, and the only thing approaching “nationalism” in the article is “Chinese scientists,” mentioned all of once.

Your points about him being antivax & anti-climate change were not avoided or refuted.

Yeah, he’s a incorrigibly a liberal. Some people can be turned, but he’s not one of them. He’s never going to be a comrade.