god damn it lol
please universe, do not allow for the U.S.'s progression of politics to wind up in a position where a “red-brown” alliance is the only option as liberals continue to double down on supporting empire
please 🙏
Not to be the bearer of bad news, but given the weird tendency of the US left to ally itself with liberals – those of the Democratic Party variety – I’d say the red-brown alliance is already here. (Seriously, this current war in Ukraine has convinced me that there’s no functional difference between libs and outright swastika-waving fascists).
True enough. The social democrats and the Kerensky types - AOC, Ilhan Omar, etc. have already made clear their position on empire.
I dunno. It’s difficult to parse ideology anymore in this shithole. If it’s allowed to exist in the public sphere, it’s capitalist/imperialist/fascist/austere, etc. etc. Just minor differences in policy and preferred enemy.
If they, those who rule us and own us, allow someone to speak on a talk show or large podcast, or consistently publish papers in an academic journal, then whatever that person has to say, no matter radical it sounds on the surface, does not actually threaten the current system. Zizek is one example of this kind of distraction. This is what torpedoed Michael Parenti out of mainstream academia.
Yep, that was gonna happen anyways. Libs have to protect their standing on the global ladder which means anything foreign is bad to them which aligns with fascists so no surprises.
Welp, time to burn it all and walk out.
negl I’d sooner wreck a movement than work with browns/actual goddamn fash. I literally do not care enough about this country of slavemasters to let us go backwards that way. I’d sooner see it burn.
kinda jokin, at least I hope I’m jokin about this possibility, but if all the settler MLs decide that Chairman Cheong is gonna lead us to Patriotic Socialism or whatever, you’ll find me right in the trenches w you comrade lol. Back to my MLM mindset in a heartbeat.
the fash can pretend to be against empire, but they’re lying. and if they’re against “globalist” empire, they’re just gonna accelerate imperialism inward. nothing to gain, tons to lose - including the literal human lives of our comrades. I hope people take that seriously when lookin at RAWM and shit like it
I don’t see any MLs falling for this BS personally. The fundamental position of these types is that US empire good but only when it provides a standard of living like in the 1950s for white people. In their minds, the imperial project fell into the “wrong” hands (the deep state, (((globalists))) etc.) I know you probably won’t disagree, just throwing in my 2 cents.
For sure. Just a few reddit weirdos spring to mind. Some names pop into my head, but those users, although popular in their own cults of like-minded weak-willed limp-ass “Marxism”, have pretty much plateaued in their reach to niche Strasserite and adjacent circles. I lump the InfraRed crowd, much of stupidpol and 4chan-obsessed “leftists” in the same sphere of ideological influence.
This will only be a real problem when it starts affecting real organizing rather than materializing as attempts to infiltrate Gab and convince Trumpites of communism or whatever. Still worrying I guess because we’ve seen that online nonsense can infect the minds of many and damage organizing, as we’ve seen with anarchism and Breadtuberism, whatever you wanna call it - ‘social liberalism’ rebranded as revolutionary. As long as the most popular and potent Marxist(-Leninist) formations in the country refuse to align with this silliness, I think the once-again burgeoning communist movement in the U.S. is in a relatively good position - as in, a position with potential.
I hope people take that seriously when lookin at RAWM and shit like it
I hope, but I’m not planning for it.
What is a red-brown alliance?
A mythical union between fascists and communists. Usually a phrase used by liberals to claim that Molotov-Ribbentrop was such, similarly with the anti-imperialist coalition between the CPC and the Kuomintang.
Such a thing has never really existed as liberals like to posit and it’s mostly a meme a la horseshoe theory. Dumb shit. Mostly joking about it, just saying it’s depressing as shit seeing fascists see beyond the veil of Sinophobic propaganda while liberals refuse to relent.
Clear shitcoating operation
Is this grifter still popular in Amerikan circles?
I would say he should touch grass but it might be better for everyone here that he doesn’t go outside.
He still pops up from time to time, to a certain amount of acclaim
