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They have started federating again, lord help us. (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (10 children)

It’s a Left-unity instance for Marxists and Anarchists (who like to simp for authoritarian AES states).

Fixed it for ya.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago (9 children)

The overwhelming majority of Marxists worldwide support AES, and a good number of Anarchists support AES against Capitalisy states. It's not about "simping."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Imo, support for AES authoritarian states is one of the main sources of friction between Marxists and Anarchists. It's ideologically dishonest to suggest otherwise. Especially since most AES states are now capitalist in most respects. If you guys would drop the AES support then left unity might stand a chance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you guys would drop the AES support then left unity might stand a chance.

Ah, I see. So in order to achieve "left unity" all we have to do is:

Abandon support for every socialist project that was even moderately successful
Refuse to learn from their successes and failures because we have to write them off entirely as if they weren't genuine movements
Allow blatant propaganda and falsehoods to be spread about them unchallenged, for fear of being associated with them.

Of course, if we did that, especially the last one, we'd be associated with them anyway - they called Obama a communist, they'll apply the label to anyone. If every attempt at building socialism was an unmitigated failure that just made everything worse and resulted in things just as bad as the Nazis, then why the hell should anyone want to be a socialist? Why should we even be socialists?

And don't try to pretend that it's only uncritical support you're talking about. If you have a good word to say about any of them, if you challenge accusations and call them out when they lack evidence, then you'll be labelled a "tankie." Y'all are obsessed with punching left and demonstrating your anticommunist credentials, and have been for the last 80 years, "If we just toss all the Reds out of the AFL/CIO, then people will see we're not like them and they'll be on our side, that we're 'one of the good ones,'" and then guess what, they call you Reds anyway, and when they come for you you'll have alienated people who would've actually fought back. This is how we got to the point where even "liberal" became a dirty word, of being "too far left."

Yeah, thanks but no thanks on that one. I'm going to continue critically supporting AES states and examining their success and failures and refuting misinformation about them - focusing on what's actually true, rather than on trying to "prove" that I'm sufficiently anticommunist to pass some red scare purity test.

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