I'm not letting the majority cis white male pressence on this site tell me what and what isn't effective.

It's not up to you to tell me what's important and what's not.

Not conducting proper struggle on ideology present leaves the reality that there is reactionary ideology present. This makes it an inherently unsafe space for the most marginalized in the community.

collectively by who?

who are they to determine what's pointless?

pointless

I'm glad these things don't matter to you but there are lives at stake.

I try to not be too serious when I post stuff offhand,

Must be fun not to have to take things seriously.

A solid answer. But why even raise the concept of perfection to begin with - instead of emphasizing the good they've done navigating contradiction and maintaining their exsitance as a socialist state. To initially phrase that as being 'imperfect' seems to me to bring the readers attention to comparing socialist states against the utopian ideal, instead of promoting it's material strengths.

Yes they are good. But why stress that they aren't perfect? This is an unscientific benchmark to bring into the conversation, and part of the greater issues at play.

We'll that and thinking that blindly saying that china and the ussr are good while also being unscientific in your analysis doesn't make you a lenninst. it makes you the walking stereo type of a 'ML' people refer to when they call lenninists tankies. This is a great discredit to the entire ideological framework of dialectic materialism and historic materialism.

Beatnik, you have no cred as an ML

Just to add a funny piece of history to the idea of the idea of the cia intentionally splitting 'leftists'. Back in the day the bolshiviks had an agent of the tsar high in their ranks that actively discouraged unity between the bolsheviks and the mensheviks - the intention being to stop the socialists from forming a larger political bloc. But from lenins point of view the main thing it did was prevent the bolsheviks from taking on the internal contradictions of the mensheviks.

This unity of the left that people fight for nowadays is a false unity based on ignoring internal contradiction instead of struggling on it and navigating it. If anything was a cia project I would say it's the tendency to build false coalitions strife with internal contradiction that are bound to fall apart from the seems at the mere presence of any meaningful hostile external factor ( if these forms don't already disassemble themselves before hand).

I agree with all this 100% and might i just add that there were a few people a while back speaking on being expropriated from this community, and one of the mods responded by making a hostile 'attempt' to reach out to some of them and blaming them for not thinking they were getting taken seriously. This is a serious issue of the left and it permeates even this community.

John Kerry

realize that this pseudo-woke “work is work” bullshit only works for people of the middle class in the imperial core. in the rest of the world proles are little more than slaves and “wage-labor” turns into “wage slavery” real fast. how can you watch shit like this and still think it’s cool to romanticize the exploitation of the proletariat.

'Autogynephilia'

I feel like part of that validation/ affirmation from cis men might be commodification instead of genuine respect. E.g. I've had known many cis people personally that treat me cool to my face but behind my back are the absolute worse.

Like the trope of the cis guy that will be nice to you when they want to get in your pants but would deny being interested in you when if the subject comes up to your friends.

Trans people having a sexuality of their own isn't fetishization. Bordering on AGP accusations here.

Funny enough it's probably a cis person telling you how to act. Do you rach

edit: I stand corrected. Still stand by trans people not being policed by anybody on this stupid site.

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