The distortion here is the multipolar environment.

its like rain, its not inherently good or bad, is roofing when it rains good, no do you want to slip and die? Is rain good if you have to water plants outside sure. Is rain good or bad depends but its not inherently good or bad it just is.

Not understanding this leads to self confusion about the nature of the wars on going, the russo-ukrainain war is an example of what multipole environments produce.

These environments produce tons of proxy wars as large states like Russia, American, China, turkey, Brazil, India attempt to secure their trade flows and trade blocks. Smaller states in a hegamons orbit like Lithuanian, other ex soviet block countries make massive appeals to other hegamons to get leverage on the local hegemonic power to play them off each other but its really about geting concessions form russia.

The Ukrainians did a multipolar no no they attempted to break the security of local hegamon and the exmonopole power the usa is wagering this war to attempt to regain monopolar status of Europe and Russia in equal parts. The whole point for the usa is keeping Russia and Europe from being an econmic couple as we steal all the best tech and company’s from Europe and eventually turn Europe into hinterlands we can extract educated workers and tech from as their social democracy collapses. They Have no resources their only a danger if they have access to resources and tech to the united States in a real sense.

The united States is acting schizophrenic because its ruling class with in the deep state is divided on of to remain a monopole keep trying that, or to withdraw and go back to bullying south America. None of this is Inherrently good or bad for leftist projects full stop. It just is the environment we find our selves in and it could be good or bad depending on how we are doing here in the states.

In other words are we in a situation where we can play the great powers off each other as worker organizations in the usa? No? Then it isn’t good or bad its just raining and you can’t take advantage of it.

This implys war watching if your not building a org is little more then entertainment to defer doing the real work and theory work at home, it won’t matter how many developed takes you have on the war or how much you cheer one side or the other if your not keeping you eyes on the prize at home. You have to walk and chew at the time.

No one in any ruling class wants a nuclear war or ww3 because you can’t have the same power and privileges in the same way after the fact. Some elites are insane and do I acknowledge this but power structures at the top snip off people who threaten their classes collective interests, think Kennedy, Nixon trying to launch nukes on North Korea during water gate drunk on the phone.

They are trying to due the time tested strategy of incorporating oposition to destroy them and then geting gas lit and we still won’t have a good single payer option in the year 2040. Its happened like 4-3 times with the dems since 1890 with the SPA (socalist party america) fortifying the dems, then the most right wing party compared to the Republicans.

Mark my. Words these chumps will be democratic agents for the party in not years time as the green transition sets in motion a massive labor struggle with them siding with capital.

Yeah I almost didn’t want share it so, kinda sorry if it’s depressing but i didn’t relent because I think we can’t or shouldn’t lie to our self the state of the left right now, labor the union struggle is the only point of any movement and its not even a historical high point in union organizing, that being said its workers in unions right realizing they are gonna get mulched and cant wait for the party sectarian orgs to come save them.

I think this is because they tailed the dems as the only strategy to win, the silver lining here is the left is starting realize it might really die and I don’t think we have seen the worst yet as far as the org situation (psl &dsa probley gonna die before 2030) but the unions are the core hot bed with any fight or resources left, that is growing abeit slowly for now.

The optimism that really exists is that the left has learned lessons in 4 years time it took boomers and my gen gen x 20 years to reorient to a more correct understanding. You know like not doing tailism with the dems the left factions of the dsa want to break away but are split on clean or dirty. But their are other issues within the dsa right now with the staffer union and top org that smell of “not ready to take power or be serious even a little”

Im kinda feeling we need to go back to the drawing board and build a positive program that naturally includes women but gives them empowerment but not just feeling empowered real power that can be exercised but the devil is how one is to go about, what models, real hard questions like how to not reliy on donors and find ways the a left program can fund its self prior to some imagined revolutionary situation.

This gives me more evidence the currently left is gonna have to go extinct before the left can make gains churches are better at incorporating women then the left is at this moment in time.

I noticed this in a local dsa chapter where they had to meet a quota of 50 % women in org in positions of leadership, but they would quickly promote people who weren’t ready for leadership as they had not enough experience, they would burn out and leave with in a year or two and now they where asking male members to identify as non binary because they burned all the local cadres out. Just to fill the quota. I guess I feel pessimistic at this moment.

To an extent the poster is right that the communism that will come in the future will be one of nesscity and survival, they are wrong that the working class really benefits thats much from the imperial plunder of the machine so much as labor aristocracy really does. You can see proof of this when you look at places like the south and midwest really places outside of newyork and LA you notice not only a core and peirfery with countries but with in countries and this is key to understand why workers hate other workers indifferent sectors why you have to make diffenet appeals to these workers when you talk to them about problems in there area.

To the people screeching like monkeys calling for people to touch grass and go outside makeing claims of armchair politics. Listen I don’t like the smug energy either but you already have failed as a communist you need to be able to work with people that don’t think exactly like you. Really think about this when the climate leviathan comes and the usa military or what ever decides to have a faction struggle and they abandoned your area your living for what ever reason, your gonna have to work with people other workers with additudes you don’t like to survive, you need to be able to present a vision that is more then a critique on what to do in that moment and that means convincing people you don’t like, working with people who don’t share your common goal, and showing them your right with action in the real world or evidence and argumentation in the digital as long as that keeps existing which is a big if.

Politics cant just be a self identity because that means you where never serious, your signing up for a project you will not see the completion of or likey benefits of much like soviet workers in the 1930 during break neck industrialization living on 1300 calories a day who will likely die in a world War in just a couple years. YOU HAVE TO HAVE DEEPER reasons then belief or methological individal self identity to build the strength of character nessarry to deal with the moment.

Touching grass is a cop out, defending thought leaders on YouTube is also a cop out.

Its starting to look like we are gonna get power until the whole planet is in various climate devastation, deeply think about what that means for the left right now, is defending a thought leader YouTuber on reddit a good use of your time? Is me posting this shit a good use of my time (self crit) no probley not.

First of all I’m pretty much in full agreement agreement with your analysis I think local struggles are gonna be key to pretty much everything, I agree with you we are seeing a movment away from the left of the 1960s back to something more radical, I also would recommend a ongoing series of analysis by Derrick C Varn called diving into the wreckage, its got some good analysis and level of depth of theory that is Critical in this moment. But yeah I feel you it sucks its been bad its geting better.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AI-ZOomPqB1f66kUrENRYfuKScZFEMHS

I organized the episodes into various series ect

I don’t support any side in the context of a interimperalist war, why? Because I can read theory closely and with intention sorry Russia and Ukraine. In another context but not this one. Its similar Serbian independence. Sorry can’t do it. Why can’t I do it because only like 3 communist partys took the right stance on ww1 and I want to gloat about it later. Why do I want to gloat about it because I wanna see if people can be held accountable for not closely reading theory, and not doing analysis with any shred of intergteity.

I don’t like this guy but I cant, begrudge people for having confused politics, pretty much every major ideology has failed in the last 50ish years. We have this rank centrist liberalism that manages to stay in power because frankly no one is competent or confident in their version of an alternative (including us if we are honest, it could be changing I have reasons I think it might) but also to be clear this liberal centrism is wet paper as both partys have to use negative partisanship in order to stay legitment so its more that liberals version of communism exists today and all they have to do is defend it from criticism but even they are facing a crisis of legimacy.

Staying on topic its strange we haven’t seen people like this weirdo earlier.

One problem not trying to nessarly shit stir but what is defined as crime is really broad in America this kinda is a important slice of nuance to this discussion.

I wish

Uhh that’s the point? Que laugh track* ill be real someone Is gonna do adventureism chances are if does a media career.

I gave up on college for that exact reason due to learning disabilitys, having to work put so much stress on study time I could not decompress and would start to implode mentally on hard classes then I’d try to manage this by taking 3 easy classes 1 hard one, I got left all hard classes and gave up because the debt would leave me unable to afford a house. Soooooooo Now im back to working but now I don’t have the income in a two income household or the opportunities to do anything and housing in utah is sky high, the only silver lining is trama from school didn’t get me to successful commit suicide, and I found a partner I love. Anyone else think this sound familiar to your life?

America is an absolute fuck right now working class Americans need a responsive party like right now so we can at least have people to hang out and socialize with because holy fuck the working class is decomposing we are in anretched state isolated and alone, no party to soothe our pain, gifted credentialed workers look down on us they won’t share skills with us or form partys to help us find jobs or have social community. I understand you guys are just as fucked in. Different ways but we are living hand to mouth and I don’t want to become lumpin, please for the love of all that is good please help us form parties, we have comrades stranded in the country side who are even worse off then us in the city and they hate both of us because we have infrastructure and they only see us in weird mediated spaces online where our city culture looks alien and vice versa. Ok red talk over.

Isn’t like it more like.

Captlism class distinctions And no worker control or worker democracy

Socalism is you got worker control of stuff but you still have class distinctions, but worker democracy and a smaller state then under captliasm but still a state and there aren’t any captlist countrys lefts to challenge power.

Communism is no class distinctions and even so far to say the completel removal of the state and outsourcing of democracy to technical abstractions.

Something like that.