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The rad libs are not OK. https://newpol.org/issue_post/internationalism-anti-imperialism-and-the-origins-of-campism/

It is like Gaza changes nothing for these 'radical leftists'.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago

These "progressives" love every colour revolution. She's basically doing the work of the US State Department, who recognizes that the Right will support basically any US-Imperialist adventure without much hestiation, but the liberals/nominally Left, like her audience, are more hestitant. That's why the CIA has cultivated a "anti-authoritarian Left" to manufacture consent for their colour revolutions.

You can add Amy Goodman and DemocracyNow! (which Solnit is a regular guest) to this group of Compatible Left which supported the Nato overthrow of Libya, Syria, HK Riots, Uighurs, and slava Ukraini

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (4 children)

That radlib shit is nothing but poorly disguised white nationalism

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

The moderate wing of fascism, indeed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Yeah but she doesn't use the cultural markers and language of the white nationalists so how could her deeply paternalistic attitude be reflective of racism?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Yes - the white nationalists amongst some "leftists" caused the downfall of the american communist party and the second international

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fucking cowards that refuse to own who they are

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think many of them refuse to even understand who they are

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

"How could I be one of the bad guys? I'm me."

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

authoritarianism

movements for democracy

comfortable western-chauvinist shitlib detected

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

that oppress national minorities, beat down movements for democracy, and crush workers’ struggles for a better life

Capitalists projecting all their bullshit onto communists example #5901284

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

La Botz has been on this one for a while, and refuses to let anything happening in the world alter his views.

2017: Samir Amin’s Russian Campist Anti-Imperialism

2020: Against Campism, for International Working-Class Solidarity

More 2022: The American Left and Ukraine

2023: We Oppose McCarthyism and Apologizing for China

Imagine witnessing the last several years and still making it your top priority to do a "neither Washington nor Moscow" dance.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Neither Washington nor Moscow but somehow always sides with Washington

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Many such cases

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

When radlibs tell you who they are, believe them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Dan the bots

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I recently picked up Hope in the Dark but haven't gotten very far. Has Rebecca Solnit always been like this or is this a recent trend?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From reading some of the other comments, seems like she's been like this since about ~2016 at least. She definitely gained a lot of prominence during the first Trump term #resistance amongst rad libs from my vague recollection.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well boo, I think she's getting kicked to the bottom of the book pile, then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Counterpoint:

It should jump to the top of your pile. A good Marxist must be able to stand in the tide, and give critical, objective, materialist analysis to a variety of works and situations.

Too many western Marxists froth at the mouth, seeking the purest information possible, and rejecting the consumption of anything else.

All that does is make people into shitty Marxists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

But moooooom I don't wanna eat my veggies.