Also important to note that China updates and replaces fossil fuels with more efficient technology, so their coal plants for example are much cleaner and more efficient than the ones in US and Europe.
What is the point of critique at all? I hear you that you are calling yourself a communist and posting that on your blog, but what is a communist if not someone who is ready ruthlessly criticize and be criticized in turn? First you called me a sectarian for expressing my discomfort with your exclusion of communists in the poster, now you are calling me a wrecker for critiquing you instead of giving my support for your "plan." My criticism is all the support you will get out if me and if you were sincere about any of this you would at least attempt to engage with it instead of immediately going for ad hominem and otherwise ignoring everything I am saying.
So people with no political development are looking to you for answers and people who are politically developed are critiquing you and so the critics must be wrong (and worse, wreckers) and your conference must be the thing we spend energy organizing around?
You think what has been holding back revolution in the imperial core is people who are politically developed criticizing your half baked idea of a future plan to see about trying to make yet another attempt of a big tent organization (with both populists, and just Indigenous people in general I guess?)
You say it's not about you as an individual but you are basing your organizing not around the masses, or workers, or an organization, but a blog named after your own name, which I hope and assume is a pseudonym. You say you have a plan, and a questionably popular blog amongst people with no political development, so why can't people just use whatever time and resources they have to make your plan a reality, maybe this time when we get a bunch of settler anarchists and populists and socialists and Indigenous people in general together, somehow there will spontaneously be a spark that lights a prairie fire; all we've been needing is a blog to arise which will call these vague categories of people together into one place so they can join together in solidarity and march as one against our mutual oppressors.
By the very nature of what you are describing, it is not going to happen. You are not going to get the vague movements listed to unify a strategy for collective liberation. If you had done any research and spent any time with people who live and breathe these movements it would be painfully obvious, and if you aren't even doing the basic groundwork to make something of this magnitude happen, it seems like you are just hoping the people who have done that work will see this and think, "Finally, I've spent years working my ass off to build myself up as an organizer and grow meaningful relationships with people in my community for this day when the plan is finally announced, I will step up and give all of these connections and experiences to this stranger and his blog convention to make sure it happens." I suppose you pretty much said this from the beginning when you put it out there that if anyone knows any influencers or youtubers that they should get them to shout it out. Your strategy is hoping that a random call to action from a virtually unknown person will mobilize people to enact your "plan," have you ever done any organizing ever? Do you know how hard it is to get people to show up to shit they actually care about? At best you'll have a convention full of people who are hoping to learn about these topics showing up and being misinformed, lead astray at worst.
I know this feels like I'm just shitting on your party or whatever but it is coming from a place of sincerity and experience, if you really care about this stuff you need to actually do some organizing work and study, that's it. It's good and fine to just be early in political development and new to organizing, and if you want to have a blog go for it but if you want to try and initiate the opening scene of The Warriors but for leftists, at least do it through an organization that does actual organizing work in the real world with people who you are accountable to so they can tell you no to your face, and hopefully explain to you that derailing the necessary organizing work that needs to be done for actual survival in order to plan your convention isn't the best use of organizational resources.
So expressing my discomfort about the intentional exclusion of communists is a sectarian attack? I think that says more than I would need to elaborate on by I will do it anyway
I disagree wholeheartedly, saying anarchists and leftists is redundant but you did that, saying socialists and leftists is redundant and you did that. Often in the imperial core we will see these same types of intentional exclusion of communism, and if you are making it a point to even include "populists" (sus) but exclude communists this seems highly questionable. Me expressing that question being called a sectarian attack out the gate is... interesting.
There are a probably dozen random individuals calling for things like this every year which no meaningful work has been put into. I see on your blog you are telling people to get organized and saying lots of fine things but I don't think you have any idea what you are trying to do and don't know why you think you would be able to pull it off.
If there is going to be some big leftist conference that forms out of nothing in a year, why do you think your blog is the catalyst for that?
Have you ever gotten a bunch of anarchists and socialists and communists and populists and Indigenous people together to work on a project before?
Have you ever been a part of a large construction of an organization where these groups are all represented, come to agreement about organizational structure, founded the org, and then operated it successfully from then on out?
Is there some lack of organizing work in your community or with organizations around you they you think trying to get people to focus their limited energy on your unknown event is the best use of everyone's time?
kind of weird to me that it says leftist populist socialist and anarchist but not communist.
also, random calls from people no one knows to do things are notoriously unsuccessful at doing anything. if you didn't already do the organizing work required to get people together, why do you think a random call to action is going to work?
Literally no other way democracy can really take hold
Absolutely, I think a bit part of the long term Ukraine strategy is funneling Ukrainian Nazis into US and EU to radicalize and train domestic fascists. They were even on the ground in Hong Kong doing training during the the protests there.
A lot of Latinos are white tho I'm surprised I haven't seen more people pointing this out with all the recent rhetoric around who voted for Trump.
I think Fanon is more compelling and providing material evidence whereas settlers wasn't saying anything I hadn't already gathered from studying other works, Fanon especially
Not even just settlers, plenty of Black folks coming out with similar takes about Palestinians and Arabs, someone posted abunch of screenshots of comments about buying Starbucks and not feeling guilty about funding the genocide because Arab voters didn't get Kamala in office. The settlerfication has taken root deep into even colonized subjects, not even just the bourgeois comprador strata as it was when Fanon was writing about them.
Sure dm me any questions.
They get guest writers who are not involved in their actual organization who sometimes have good takes and most likely have no idea who they are submitting to so might be the case irt the Austin situation.
But I will say beyond that, it is easy to write good takes and harder to live by them or follow through with them. They might be able to repeat good lines on something like settler colonialism but it doesn't mean they have killed the settler within or ever intend to
Straight from Herzl, damn.
This group is ironically a split off from a different group because the leader of this group is a wealthy cracker who is permanently posting online and got barred by the last group from posting on Twitter because he was making trans members feel uncomfortable with his posts so he rage quit and took all the cis men with him to start this group.
Was the use of it by Nazis with armbands marking who was Jewish the beginning of the prevalence?
I like how you say iirc as if you are remembering a fact that has been said instead of a line that has been fed to you to repeat without knowing that it is totally ungrounded in reality
they aren't saying anything unique or new, just pointing out the obvious and saying so that's why you should... join DSA? no thanks
I'm not arguing in favor of illiteracy I'm saying that the average person won't make time to get more literate between their three jobs but they will show up to get free groceries or a dental exam
I agree generally that people in this country no matter their class background benefit enough from imperialism and the domestic slave colony to not put effort into their own political development. I do think however, after a decade of serious organizing, nearly all the best comrades I've ever met have more to gain from the status quo than they do by being communists. They devote their lives to it because it is right, and they have seen too much to go back. The average person does benefit but also agrees with every socialist policy and just thinks it isn't attainable because they have never been educated about politics beyond the default programming. Literally our jobs as communists to find those people and show them that they can change things and how.
which is why I said fully invested. if they aren't invested enough to vote, they are just default libs because they were born here, just like literally everyone else who was born here, you and me included.
I think almost half the eligible voting population didn't vote and there's a massive base of people who are not eligible to vote beyond that.
That tracks, you don't seem like you read much