• relay@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yes the Sam Cedar crowd is bad in that regard, but dude, Rainer Shea. Siding with social conservatives and fascists seems only effective if you actually have a party with power on parity with them. They got way more power than your followers. You’d be better off radicalizing demsocs or apoliticals, than this.

    Yes the base American is quite reactionary, but you’d be better off talking about how these wars are detracting from effective utilization of resources.

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      1 year ago

      Do you consider Shea to be siding with Putinism (Or other class enemies) for supporting Russia in the special military operation?

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        1 year ago

        It’s not saying “Putin’s victory is a better outcome than a Ukrainian victory” that is my issue. My issue is with the support of the Rage Against the War Machine rally. I think it would be better to have different protests and more protests.

        Some might say it is useful to have tactical allies to work together for a common cause, but I don’t think the American right has any true principals other than undermining what a Democratic president in office is doing.

        All effective protests project memes into the consciousness of the populous. Diluting the idea of the protest just makes horseshoe theory look correct. That is the meme often showing up in publications of the RAWM. A Leftist protest against imperialism and its folly would be a more principled protest. It is also always sus to ever have to share a stage with Fascists.

        Also, sniping at the PSL and DSA when they are institutions with leftist power seems like sabatour behavior. You can criticize them and ask them to reconsider or influence their members to take your position, but writing them off entirely to side with social fascists for minimal tactical gain seems like a foolhardy decision. I could understand wanting to support

        It would be nice if we had the power like the 60’s and 70’s to actually change policy, but we can’t now. The real purpose is to change minds and support a better vision, to later actually have power.