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Pragmatic Leftist Theory

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The neolibs are too far right. The tankies are doing whatever that is. Where's the space for the people who want fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism, but realize that it's gonna take a while and there are lots of steps between now and then? Here. This is that space.

Here, people should endeavor to discuss and devise practical, actionable leftist action. Vote lesser evil while you build grassroots coalitions. Unionize your workplace. Participate in SRAs. Build cohesion your local community. Educate the proletariat.

This is a place for practical people to develop practical plans to implement stable, incremental improvement.

If you're dead-set on drumming up all 18,453 True Leftists® into spontaneous Revolution, go somewhere else. The grown ups are talking.

Rules:

-1. Don't be a dick. Racism, sexism, other assorted bigotries, you know the drill. At least try to default to mutually respectful discussion. We're all on the same side here, unless you aren't, in which case kindly leave.

-2. Don't be a tankie. Yes I'm sure you have an extensive knowledge of century-old theory. There's been a century of history since then. Things didn't shake out as expected, maybe consider the possibility that a different angle of attack might be more effective in light of new data.

-3. Be practical. No one on the left benefits from counterproductive actions. This is a space informed by, not enslaved to, ideology. Promoting actions that are fundamentally untenable in the system in question, because they fulfill a sense of ideological purity, is a bad look. Don't do that.

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[–] Juice@midwest.social 0 points 1 week ago

1861

The north was fighting to preserve the union, and the slavery within it. Not antifascist, in fact the North was falling all over itself to promise the South that they could keep their slaves. What defeated slavery and led to its abolition was the overwhelming amount of Black slaves who joined the northern Armies, a historic collective act W.E.B DuBois dubbed a "General Strike." The white army guy in the picture says a lot about the political education of the artist.

three arrows

A symbol that originates from the mid-thirties from the SPD, it was painted over swastikas. Each arrow represents the enemies of social democracy: anti-monarchism, anti-fascism, and anti-communism. Consider, the SPD was not able to defeat the threat of fascism, arguably because the party purged all communists from political power.

Rosa Luxemburg was assassinated by the Friecorps, right wing paramilitaries (proto-fascists), enlisted by the SPD to put down the Vorwards uprising. She was "shot in the back while trying to escape" (yeah right), but was only at the Vorwards building because she was trying to prevent a violent coup against the government.

Rosa was one of the first people to call out the SPD for its corruption, which eventually led to the party's utter destruction and national takeover by the Nazis.

Anti communism is capitulation to fascism. If you want to be anti Stalinist, anti authoritarian, that's different since Stalin, himself a moderate, also capitulated to the Nazis via Molotov-Ribbentrop. Stalin was arguably the the most successful anticommunist of the 20th century, the "grave digger of the revolution."

If the SPD had allowed the communist movement to flourish, and aided the Russians against the bourgeois capitalists that invaded during their civil war, there would have been no Stalin (I'm not convinced Stalin's Comintern didn't intentionally sabotage this plan of Lenin and the pre- revolutionary Bolsheviks, just like they sabotaged the American communist movement) and there would have been no Hitler.