Yeah, are you suggesting as socialists we should do whatever we can to help the status quo because things could get worse? Should we vote Biden and try to prevent capitalism’s crises? We already do espouse what could be done reformistically for propaganda purposes. The crisis is terminal, I don’t know what you want.
Do you know what the words “revolutionary defeatism”
I don’t think the context here is the same as when Lenin coined that term. He was largely advocating for defeatism in Russia because he thought weakening the Czar would enable a communist revolution within the country, which it did. That’s not going to happen in the US, if anything our empire weakening will just make people here more reactionary.
You can, and clearly do, and I agree, support socialists within the Imperial Core trying to hasten the Empire’s collapse any way we can (which isn’t much honestly) as anti-imperialist praxis, but I don’t thing the term “revolutionary defeatism” is really applicable to this strategy since it’s not going to lead to a revolution, not here anyway.
Do you know what the words “revolutionary defeatism” means and do you believe it is your duty as a socialist?
Yeah, are you suggesting as socialists we should do whatever we can to help the status quo because things could get worse? Should we vote Biden and try to prevent capitalism’s crises? We already do espouse what could be done reformistically for propaganda purposes. The crisis is terminal, I don’t know what you want.
I don’t think the context here is the same as when Lenin coined that term. He was largely advocating for defeatism in Russia because he thought weakening the Czar would enable a communist revolution within the country, which it did. That’s not going to happen in the US, if anything our empire weakening will just make people here more reactionary.
You can, and clearly do, and I agree, support socialists within the Imperial Core trying to hasten the Empire’s collapse any way we can (which isn’t much honestly) as anti-imperialist praxis, but I don’t thing the term “revolutionary defeatism” is really applicable to this strategy since it’s not going to lead to a revolution, not here anyway.