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.
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.