they had me in the first half, not gonna lie
by “Chinese ruling class” you mean capital owners and not the CPC right? youre talking abt the billionaires right?principled stances on the Russian and Chinese ruling classes
link bc im not a
SAlt was against the lockdowns in China.
so they’re the neocon type of trot? or are they just really dumb
https://www.socialistalternative.org/2022/05/01/shanghai-covid-19-lockdown-reaches-crisis-point/
https://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/04/16/wuhan-lockdown-lifted-after-76-days/
Wonderful talking points such as
95% of the content in these articles could have just been outsourced to RFA. Then they slap on a sentence about worker ownership of the means of production and call it socialist reporting.
Alternative exists in tandem with Alliance
SAlt also didn't win the 15 dollar minimum wage, it was a coalition of democratic party muscle and labor unions (but I repeat myself) that they opportunistically leeched on to in order to grow their ranks.
this is the kind of stolen valor i can get mad at
This is the only problem with Trots, it's just a very big one
when you meet a trot theyre either a real trot or a neocon. and even the real trots still do the state departments job for them.
is this sectarian? idk if we have any trots on here. i think its possible to have left unity with trots, just very few of them
Yeah I mean I don't think we have a lot of Trots because basically the only thing we insist on is supporting anti-imperialist struggle and that is like the one thing they refuse to do
I go to a local trot group. I go to a couple of other local leftist groups too when the mood strikes me. I try to interact with a variety of spaces so I can be exposed to different positions and see how I feel about them.
I guess I'm a trot? I hardly think Russia or China are shining examples of communism, and also aren't great for LGBT rights. Only one way to find out though - it's a pipe dream but I'd like to travel to China at some point to experience what it's like over there. (Yes, I know it's a big country and there are a lot of different parts of China, blah blah blah.) At my core I believe millionaires shouldn't exist and then I expand my politics from there in any compatible way.
I'm not commenting here to debate my politics, I'm just letting you know that I exist and I continue to love all the comrades of Hexbear whether they be tankies or something else. And you've all definitely opened my mind to a brand of leftism that doesn't see any local representation!
I may be a trot or I may be the ultimate left unity enthusiast. So yay! Love you all.
why do they, as an american, need to have a stance against any foreign leaders? what's the point of this other than to pick pointless fights with your less chauvinist partymates? what would an american succ even do? tell Xi to knock it off? Impose sanctions? Enact regime change? Carry on business as usual for empire? Wow real awesome work then western left
I'm a firm believer in a philosophy of the ruling class. Especially since I rule.
welcome to Burger King, you rule!
US-designated enemy states are brought up, generalized and condemned before the US is even mentioned, the country this organization exists in and purportedly seeks to change.
"well you see it's more nuanced than just USA bad. It's actually China bad, USA also-bad-but-less-so. In other words my nuance is that we are the good guys (but we could be better) and they are the bad guys. Same as it ever was"
mfw when trots get filled with lib entryists
Now, who should I put my faith for workers being able to seize the means of production in? The leadership and party cadre of a country with the most people in the world that regularly punishes billionaires, or a tiny American leftist group who hasn't even managed to place someone in charge of a large American city, let alone bring justice for the working class?
Obviously anyone who thinks China isn't worse than the US is just being tricked by the CIA! The China Intelligence Agency! As a principal communist, it is vital to despise all enemies of the west moreso than even libs do! That's the only way to achieve socialism, by supporting the status quo 110%!
The only thing the 白左 hate more than the ruling class of America is believing something contrary to what said ruling class tells you about other countries.
I had multiple arguments with this person on their multiple accounts. And the only takeaway I had was that they have never done any actual organising and that they really aren't left at all. I questioned whether they were actually in Socialist Alternative tbh because their responses were so fundamentally bad faith all the time and often came across as lying.
Daily reminder that Irish revolutionaries wanted to enlist the help of the German Kaiser in providing weapons and other military equipment. They purposely timed the Easter Rising while the UK was at war with the Germany empire, but I guess that's "campism." Irish people should've just marched with "neither Berlin nor London" signs instead.
Marx fundraised for the Ottomans
Lenin worked with the capitalist German government to arrange transport and resources for his return to Russia, they gave him a much needed boost
Mao worked with the national bourgeois to defeat the Japanese invaders and imperialists
Time and time again we see that alleged "campism" is often just pragmatism and necessary coalition forming by states, and socialists who defend those states against western attacks. Yeah, I'm a campist. The real socialist camp. Where the actual socialist global movement is happening, I'm with that camp, I'm siding with them. Deal with it westoids.
fr, especially in the case of China. like capitalists are still somewhat powerful there, but the Party still has enough power to sufficiently control and discipline them. also “ruling class” a lot of the time is just rightist conspiracy speak for Jews