I’ll preface with saying that I’m only a random Communist. Please take what I say with a grain of salt, even if I come off as confident.
Regardless of your opinion on the war, it is not going to affect its course unless you go fight there, with a few exceptions.
Unless you live in Russia or Ukraine, your priorities should be:
- pressuring your country’s government for non-interventionism, including sanctions. Capitalist States have only the interest of capital in mind, and their intervention will hurt the people further
- fighting racism in your communities, especially the new wave of anti-Russian hate.
If you live in Poland or Romania, you should also be fighting the racism against non-Ukrainians (mostly foreign students) seeking refuge. Most of them just want to go home. The fact that the police are attacking them is extremely ridiculous.
If they are a popular leftist front then why are the so socially regressive? Lenin, mao, Marx were all very clearly in favor of social progress. The bolsheviks legalized homosexuality when they came to power. Mao spoke in favor of recognizing diverse ethnic identities within China and wrote forcefully against Han supremacy.
This idea that progressive social values, like acceptance of LGBT people or anti racist stuff is “liberal social justice wars” is fucking fashy bullshit. It’s ahistorical. It’s dressed up strasserism.
Why are you using quotes for “liberal social justice wars” when that’s not what I said? And you say I argue in bad faith. As an American, I do support LGBT rights. I have lots of friends and family who are LGBT and I care about them deeply. How can you call me a strasserist? Is this your idea of a joke?