fart_the_peehole [he/him,any]

I guess critique of PSL counts as wrecker behavior on this site, but I’m thinking of when Gloria La Riva tried to brush aside accusations of transphobia and was all “how dare you call me cis, I’m a woman of color”

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real world organizing =/= a bunch of internet dogmatists getting together to march

their local branch announced their formation with a post hashtagged #marx #engels #lenin #trotsky and had a ton of Alan Woods books for sale. they’re trots.

I’m gonna guess it’s about galaxy formation, that seems to be a focus of their gravitational wave thing. It might adjust some stuff in our understanding of cosmic history but I’d be very surprised if it’s about really close-to-the-big-bang stuff, which is what a lot of people think of as foundational

Damn I liked bayarea

Crimea is host to Russian naval bases and a big Russian population, and the bases were leased from Ukraine after their transfer to the Ukrainian SSR and the dissolution of the USSR. When the NATO government was established in Kiev, Russian forces were already in Crimea and clearly weren’t going to hand over Sevastopol to NATO.

Bro I’m just asking you to join us figuring out the right approach. You don’t have to be defensive about the fact we don’t have a vanguard party yet, but pretending that we can just keep doing what hasn’t worked before is just not the way to go.

I think arguing that revolution is impossible so we should just focus on helping right some of the most egregious wrongs, also counts as liberalism…

But if you agree that such activity isn’t building for the revolution and still decide that’s what you should really be spending your time on, then you are a liberal.

Back in the days of Marx and Engels this was known as Owenism and there’s a critique of it in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. It has been tried, including in the US.

~~For a more modern critique check out https://kites-journal.org/2021/11/01/revolution-has-vanished-replaced-with-fantasies-of-dual-power-counterpower-base-areas-abolition-and-other-bottom-up-bourgeois-democratic-illusions/~~

Basically you can’t just cut yourself off from the capitalist system, and trying to create cooperative structures that coexist outside of capitalism just turns into better conditions inside the system for the members of your coop while dampening revolutionary consciousness. When you try to turn those structures into revolutionary vehicles they run into problems.

edit: oops damn shouldn’t have posted the mutual-aid-isn’t-communism take in the c/mutual_aid, that’s what I get for sorting by new