Leftist Infighting: A community dedicated to allowing leftists to vent their frustrations

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The purpose of this community is sort of a "work out your frustrations by letting it all out" where different leftist tendencies can vent their frustrations with one another and more assertively and directly challenge one another. Hostility is allowed, but any racist, fascist, or reactionary crap wont be tolerated, nor will explicit threats.

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To be “respectable” in the online left is to be imperialism-compatible. Being a serious Marxist requires breaking from it. (open.substack.com)

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think this is where we find fundamental disagreements. To me it is vastly worse to support imperialist shills like Bernie than to have a common cause with people who happen to hold some reactionary views on cultural issues.

There are countless communists in the global south with reactionary views on gender and sexuality, and while those views are wrong and should be denounced and corrected through ideological struggle, this does not justify refusing to support or work with them.

There is no issue more important for the global liberation of workers than the anti-imperialist struggle. If someone holds all the correct positions on cultural issues but does not oppose, or worse, even reinforces and supports imperialism, then their net effect on the world is a reactionary one.

More so than that of anti-war, anti-imperialist right wingers, regardless whether this position comes from a place of principles or opportunism, or simple contrarianism. What matters is the result, and although they don't realize it the libertarians who take up anti-imperialist advocacy are directly helping to undermine the capitalist system they think they are trying to save.

Capitalism cannot survive without imperialism. And it is capitalist imperialism that is the greatest obstacle to the liberation of all oppressed peoples and disadvantaged minorities.

Contradictions are present everywhere and in everything we do. In a broad spectrum anti-war, anti-imperialist alliance there will be severe contradictions. Regardless the faults of the groups participating in these movements, the only ones who benefit from trying to turn people away from supporting or joining such movements through moralistic purity arguments are the imperialists.

I'm sorry but i think what you and a few other comrades here are doing in taking up these radlib talking points about RAWM is exactly what Rainer has been criticizing about Brian Becker and the PSL. Becker is someone who i personally have a lot of admiration and respect for, and so does Rainer, but the criticism expressed in this piece is absolutely valid.