• FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 个月前

    After having to engage with so many radlibs who might be decent on Zionism but have absolutely horrendous takes on China and Taiwan, seeing this has a certain he-admit-it vibe to it that it really ought not to have. It’s not like Taiwan pretends not to be a little imperial lapdog.

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      radlibs who might be decent on Zionism

      They only became decent these last two years, due to popular pressure. Radlibs are social capitalist who chase after the next trendy and safe “prestige social cause”.

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        Yeah but we do have to engage with them because you’re really describing the people who will always make up the bulk of any mass movement. We don’t really have the kind of education that produces loads of principled socialists with a holistic understanding of geopolitics, imperialism, and revolutionary strategy.

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          Engage as to direct the masses away from such thought, not “put oneself on the same level” as radlibs. Radlibs are something that needs to be combated, exposed for their faults and their uselessness to the masses. Capitalist culture causes little capitalists to sit on every dinner table.

          Sure only a fraction will actually be the leadership of any communist revolution, which will possess the holistic understanding essential for a vanguard, however establishing such education is an indispensable component of every movement, and simply accommodating social capitalists with the equivalent of a natural phenomenon is erroneous.

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            “The masses” you’re talking about are the radlibs. The people who went to the No Kings protest and who listen to John Oliver. There is no mass of people with no prior worldview whatsoever who you’re gonna convince to become communists instead of liberals.

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              The masses arent liberals, but believe in a string of incoherent vibes based politics which are anti-elite in nature.

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                “I hate my job but at least I could have a theoretical beer with the electoral candidate”

                I don’t think I fully agree with your sentiment on radlibs but this comment is so fucking true.

    • Honestly I have to thank Isnotreal for unmasking the west in a brutal fashion. Just can’t believe how fast you can die in my eyes if you align yourself with Zionism.

      Don’t get me wrong, one could have seen it way earlier. It was just easier to stay comfortably tucked in to the warm blanket of my own states propaganda.

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    Israel-Taiwan relations

    Oh we’re reporting on fictional entities now?

    A warm welcome to Menzoberranzan’s first delegation to Atlantis.