Posted this elsewhere and got hit with this from an anarchist:
“In my experience, Johnstone makes some correct statements sometimes, but she is a Trojan horse for the campist agenda, and an apologist for genociders like Assad, Putin and China. I used to follow and promote her before I understood the “anti-imperialist” grift.”
After this they posted several links about tankies and such. I just replied that I am in fact a tankie.
Also got flagged as a troll after posting this, by a “democracy is everything” type of account that definitely seemed like it is astroturfed.
I have the privilege of working with marginalized folks so I am trying to slide material class conscious seeds into the communication I have with them as much as I can without losing my position. I have sadly noticed that for example poor folk have often fully internalized the all consuming neoliberal self-loathing and individualization that we live in and truly think it is them who are the problem. I want to at least raise class consciousness, to contribute to deprogramming people around me and if nothing else, make someone see the systemic issue rather than blaming themselves or othe proles. I have no idea if this matters or not, but I have hope it does.
I have a kid who honestly has a fairly low chance of “making it” with adhd in this shitty system. I also consider climate change to be a non-debatable justification for getting rid of capitalism so I think I would be willing to go all the way to whatever the situation demands of me, because I can’t think of anything better to spend or lose my life on than making this change happen.
I know I really struggle to exist with awareness of all the unnecessary war, violence and plunder that we seemingly can’t do anything about. I would rather do somerhing than not. I don’t consider my individual life that important that I couldn’t trade it for a better timeline for future generations.
Only two members of this party (if I remember correctly) voted againts Nato. The only open communist was one of them.
They do love to flaunt this, but they have no actual political power so it’s more like a wish or what they say their goals are, not that it has an impact.
I work with homeless people in my everyday and they are definitely not doing so well so this common Finnish country brand PR they love to say everywhere is an eternal annoyance to me when I see it on social media. It gets thrown around by libs a lot in places like Mastodon.
They definitely have not done that.
Many progressives that are having uneasy feelings about the intense austerity rallied to do democracy and voted for her in a election nobody cares about about positions that hold very little power. Now patting themselves in the back about “defeating the far right” while austerity just intensifies daily, because they have done their part.
Aldo pretty bold statements about our Nato Left. Also interesting this is stated as the socialist left, these guys are socdem at best.
For more context. This comment by this politician sparked another big wave of resignations this spring.
Iain M. Banks Terry Pratchett
My partner found one online by a Chinese university that he found to be pretty accessible. I’ll try to remember to ask him for the link.* You can pester me in a pm if I forget.
*neurospicy disclaimer
Just witnessed a very liberal, very average progressive & “leftist” Ukraine supporting fellow countryperson arrive to this gem:
“What an irrational thing world politics is when Putin is asking to negotiate peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict.”
Oh boy, contradictions have been noticed it seems. But they are still finding ways to splain them away.
Maybe all that is happening will at least crack the hegemonic narrative a bit?
Tbf this was one of the kolektiva anarchists from the Fedi. I don’t think I have ever really seen anything but pro-imperialism and commie hating “leftism” from that server.