The cornerstone of the modern USA is anti-communism, without which it is no longer the USA.

Yeah under his leadership anti-zionists were removed from the labour party. Furthermore there are allegations that he briefed organisations like the Jewish Chronicle against socialists and anti-imperialists in the name of fighting “anti-semitism” which wouldn’t surprise me given that it is now well known the board of the Guardian newspaper sat down with him at the beginning of his leadership and said they will rail on him like a ton of bricks if he carries on with his foreign policy stances… and what did he effectively do with this forewarned threat? Fuck all.

He maybe one of the “best” politicians in the UK but that title should be meaningless for MLs.

This is a privilege only Western Marxism can defend.

Addendum - you know what? I am being unnecessarily diplomatic to Corbyn here in an ML space. He repeatedly let condemnation and suspension of anti-zionists. He staffed liberal zionists. He effectively validated the smear campaign and isolated the anti-imperialist left.

Corbyn is a social democrat he is not a communist. His purpose is to drive people who are disillusioned by bourgeois “democracy” back into the fold. He exists to diffuse revolutionary sentiment by offering reform. That’s what sheepdogs do.

^This

Some may consider “sheepdog” as offensive but that aside this is the correct marxist take. You need revolution for even meaningful reforms to take place. If one doesn’t understand the gravitas of why bourgoisie electoralism does not work then one does not understand marxism-leninsim and the science of how capital works. “Creating space” is idealist nonsense.

One is a marxist despite the likes of Sanders/AOC/Mamdani and even Corbyn, not “because” of them.

Back in Lenin’s day they were criticising people who called themselves marxist and made attempts to contribute to marxism (in their own way) and they were rightly being called out for their reformist errors (Kautsky being a famous one). These days you have so called marxists capitulating to even socdems (Corbyn is at best a scandinavian style socdem with a big heart but capital does not care if you fail due to a skills issue).

Western Marxism is a disease.

Addendum- an example to bring this home. Corbyn was smeared due to his pro-palestenian stance partly because he staffed his staff with liberal zionists who ensured his downfall; he made significant political errors because he does not understand why (and I am being charitable here - his is in his 70s and doing this for decades - he should fucking know better, which then makes you question why he is like this) and what liberal zionism is, the categorical political sin of giving space for this, that the parliamentarian system is not in error of its ways but is designed to uphold imperialism, genocide and exploitation. He has no real political theory of change here. And yet you have boneheads defending him because he is a Nice Guy TM and puts most of other western politicans to shame which is a fucking low bar. Just keep doing the same thing over and over again for decades on end and sure its going to change anytime now with all this incremental privileged refomist feel-goodness…

“Suspects”?

Sometimes the deleted comments have interesting insights.

I wonder over the past 77 years how many of them have taken up arms with the resistance? Weren’t there even germans who defected against the Nazis and joined the armed struggle against them?

Another one brought to sapience by socialism and brought to rot and barbarism by capital restoration.

(1) why may people get more reactionary as they get older in the west (let’s say compared to these Indian farmers)? [Hint: it’s to do with their relation with private property]. Why do you consider that the default to compare to other countries? [Especially when that fallacy was pointed out to you to for you to look up further]

(2) why then did you not bother investigating further before doubling down?

(3) you think I am being harsh? The socialist organisation in India is despite it being a capitalist hellhole with fascist hindutva normalised. They don’t just protest, they are deeply networked with overground and underground political movements. They put westerners who have significant more privilege and access to way more wealth to shame. And that is the eurocentric bias I am critcising you on.

If you’re meant to be an ML you should really investigate and you should also consider why you have your biases (hint it is not to do with any perceived lack of intelligence; you should be confident in your intelligence but question the systems that made you think a certain way). Someone implies you are racist? Consider the class colloboration perspectives on why that maybe the case. The only racism that matters is the prejudice with power; everything else is liberal hogwash.

I am a westerner and I have not undone being one; which means no matter what I may identify as between my ears I am a cog of racist machine that exploits the Global South - the only real hope of undoing that is through organisation. It is patronising to disparage those from the south who do socialist organising through difficult circumstances and use the lens of those more privileged (who do significantly less) to judge them by.

It is true you don’t know me from Adam but you can look at my history if you want where I come down on hindutva freaks and apologists like a tonne of bricks. This, however, means jack-all with theory of political change but I thought I’d mention it for context and perspectives.

We are all learning here. You should learn from this too.

Edited: removed the gratituous swearing, if you’re not a native anglo-speaker it could be distracting (or not)

What a pile of (racist?) nonsense. I gave you examples but instead of furthering your research you decided to call it quits after reading the samples. It’s unbelievable the amount of orientalism even on an ML site. You’re not really giving the impression you are worth convincing otherwise. As bad as India is westerners and their bootlickers are the worst.

I would argue they don’t understand even basic science.

Even if they take a bio-essentialist paradigm (which is unscientific and undialectical anyway) they will have a hard time explaining themselves out of genetic penetrance. They’re about as scientific as so-called “race science”; it’s just another vehicle to channel their insecurities as violent supremacism.

If the older generation is more radical than the youth, the already fascist and insane Indian society really has no hope left.

(1) Why aren’t there more older folks marching similarly in the west? This should be more normal given demographic shifts.

(2) you’re not looking hard enough at the extent of organisation (this was a just an example of a quick search for sources in English):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hw4at0DyZWM

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/28/how-a-communist-youth-organization-in-kerala-raised-usd-1-4-million-for-covid-19-relief/

Yes India has a significant hindutva fascist cesspool. But it also has some of the largest socialist organising (outside of China of course) in the world.

Reminds me of Victor Gao’s interview with some British news mouthpiece with “what exactly is UK competing in against China” or some similar smackdown.

The limits of a liberal democracy and peformative politics on climate change.

Thank you for taking the time to explain for all these queries; much appreciated! Stay safe brother.

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What’s stopping the state from “embracing” the sanctions Russia-style and going full throttle east? These western appeasing libs? If they are coming to power because of concerns with lack of geopolitical assertiveness from former government then wouldn’t they lose that power if they renege? Or are these “western” bourgoisie in Iran just that powerful? Are there competing factions of bourgoisie?

Damn that’s fucking bleak. Are they at least looking east or are they looking to be Honorary “Aryans” (ie I realise the irony of using that term to symbolise white supremacism to an Iranian)? Is there any chance that they may adopt anti-western-hegemony despite their bourgoisie sensiblities, even from a national self preservation point of view?

If we were to take the truly anti-racist approach on excess deaths and assume they (globally) would have all been developed (less take HDI greater than 0.9 as a very low bar to define “developed”) then excess deaths will likely be an extra billion on top of the estimates already stated

I no longer believe in Chomsky’s manufacturing consent. I think the right wingers are correct when they say the media gives the “people” ( I strongly believe the reactionary masses make up the “elite” rather than just billionaires) what they want in the US; the narratives are a license for their violent bigotry as they understand at some level they benefit from the exploitative relationship the US has with the rest of the world (even the vassal states that benefit from this hegemony).

If having the ability to livestream the genocide on their phones for the past couple of years isn’t going to change their minds, then their consent for murder was never manufactured in the first place.

If you consider excess deaths from the birth of US (including all that is not “direct” military action) it is likely to be 500 mill - 1 billion deaths.

Addendum - conservative estimates