I deleted it because I realised it was the same person I was responding to twice. I don’t remember exactly what I wrote - might have called you a dumbass or something? Which I would stand by, and is not ableist at all, unless you’re suggesting that only disabled people have low intellect?
What is “my narrative”? that it sucks when decent organisations with strong links to legitimately revolutionary orgs such as the PKK get co-opted and end up serving the interests of the American empire as a result of having to fight against US-backed ISIS and other western-backed Jihadists? what should the YPG have done differently, in your eyes, that would exonerate them for the crime of having to defend their homes from Jihadist barbarism because the legitimate government of Syria totally withdrew from the region when the war kicked off?
Are you even aware of that - the fact that the SAA totally pulled out of NE Syria in the early part of the war, leaving the locals to fend for themselves against US-backed Jihadism? What course of action should they have taken that would have preserved their lives and their homes while not also creating opportunity for the US empire to insert itself and then refuse to leave? Should they have been putting out principled statements against both ISIS and the US while they were beseiged in Kobani?
or call me more ableist slurs
??? is “campist” ableist or something???
Kurdish and many other communists in Syria bled and died to stop US-backed ISIS under the flag of Rojava and here you are celebrating the co-option and demise of their project, fuck you. Your logic is the exact same as somebody who would celebrate the collapse of the USSR because they backed zionism throughout their history. You reveal yourself as nothing but a shameless, useless campist.
bro they were massing like 200k soldiers on the border for several months before that, it’s not comparable
misconceptions about countries like […] Russia being imperialist (Lenin would agree with me btw)
god this website sucks ass sometimes. what about Russia’s advanced capitalist economy, complete with a developed finance sector, and its war to annex the resource/population-rich territory of Ukraine (contested by the NATO imperialist bloc), is not manifestly imperialist by the definition laid out by Lenin? how the fuck are South Africa more imperialist in your view?
Jordan bombing Syria is not unusual, they’re going after drug smugglers who cross the border with the blessing of the Syrian government.
heard that they classified some group in yemen as terrorists? the “houthis”? idk anything about that but i support the brave and heroic Yemeni Armed Forces in all that they do
peace deal, we’re allowed to make fun of the weirdo “abolish time” anarchists and they’re allowed to make fun of the weirdo “i pledge allegience to chairman gonzalo” communists, and we will build anticapitalist unity on this basis. as a show of good faith we won’t make any more jabs about Makhno and they won’t make any more about the Bolsheviks
another one of those historical moments where you feel like you’re riiiight at the top of a rollercoaster, about to plunge unstoppably
it seems as much imperialism as the Mongols or the Romans at least.
have you read Lenin
i’m so glad he’s back. one day we will give him a top job at the ministry for proletarian culture
i cannot cope emotionally anymore. i wept for a long time after seeing the interview with Saleh Al-Arouri’s mother. she said that they had not seen him for 20 years… 15 years spent imprisoned, then another 3, then exiled to several different countries, and now killed without warning this evening. his poor mother, this innocent old lady, no tears in her eyes, she probably had already assumed she would never see him again, and now she has had the inevitable confirmation… it hurts my heart so much.
no matter what i do, no matter how correct my understanding and practice, i as a citizen of an imperial country will never be absolved of these historic sins, the sins of my compatriots and ancestors, and the material benefits that these sins have brought me from birth to the present. i only hope that the oppressed people of the world, upon their victory, will show us forgiveness. perhaps then we can dance on the grave of the blood-drinking monster called “capital” together.
it is almost like a dialectically materialist understanding of history would indicate your own place in it and make it possible for you to act accordingly, breaking free of liberal nihilism and “introversion”
of course if you still labour under a liberal worldview then that would just seem like people telling you to “go outside” and “build some communism”
Organise to do what?
Try to form connections with the exploited and oppressed people in your locality via whatever means you can. Listen attentively to them and their problems whenever you get the opportunity, understand them and use the theory you know to analyse what you have heard and seen. Take the results of that analysis and try to apply them; even if it’s just trying to agitate more effectively, keep thinking about how to adapt your line and practice to the circumstances you find yourself in. Always be on the lookout for other communists/anyone else who seems like they would be down to help organise the working class. If you find anyone like that, talk to them and work with them. Some of the folks in your local party branch may feel the same as you about the tactics being ineffective and would welcome some fresh ideas about how to organise.
Basically, do what a communist does. It takes practice and if you’re new to it, it’s gonna feel a little stilted at first, but this is how communists organise and lead.
Good luck, you can do it! There’s nothing wrong with being a stubborn, disagreeable motherfucker if you’re doing it on behalf of the poor and oppressed and you’re driven by a love for the people. I was very shy and conflict-averse when I started organising but the more I’ve done and seen, and the more I’ve become aware of how terribly my friends and neighbours are treated by capitalism, the less I’ve had time for compromise and being “reasonable” with the exploiting class and their lackeys.
thanks for sticking up for trans ppl <3
My 20-something second cousin 110% wanted to fuck.
bruh???
are they still supporting Biden for president?
what’s going on with the attack on a ship near India yesterday? US is saying it was Iran but not sure what motive they’d have to strike a Japanese cargo vessel near India
they’re heroes. what about the majority of the SDF which has not fought against the SAA since their foundation and now works with the Syrian government in the vast majority of territories they hold? The US is squatting in the corner of the country on some oil fields, you’re acting like all of NES is the fucking Green Zone