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When will the left drop the sectarian BS and work together? (hexbear.net)

submitted 23 hours ago by MayoPete@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I am at risk of being sent to a camp because my brain works a little differently than others. Being on the left isn't going to help.

Our friends and colleagues are being deported and jailed just for having anti-Zionist opinions and daring to express them.

Right wing violence is Surging. Our Trans comrades are in increasing danger. We are all having our rights stripped away...

...and the largest new thread is another fucking anarchist beefing with MLs.

What is it going to take for us to work together and fight a common enemy? Anarchists are not my enemies. I don't care which series of 200 year old books you have or have not read, and you shouldn't care either.

You know who ARE my enemies? Those old white people who go to Republican party meetings and plot to deport my neighbors and throw me into a "wellness" camp because they're too much of cowards to handle anyone different than them.

I'm sick of all this endless infighting! Can we all just, IDK, organize to shut down some local GOP meetings, or create some Socialism 101 agit prop, or do anything productive? Or is this what the left does, just endlessly bicker over books online?

Get outside, touch grass, and accept the person next to you no matter what kind of left they claim to be. We're not big enough for this and I really need you to organize because I like living outside of a DHS cage.

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[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 42 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The left is such a fringe minority in the US the idea that if we all stopped be sectarian and united together we'd be some force to to reckon with is delusional. We'd just be a slightly bigger fringe minority with tons of infighting whenever we came to an sort of ideological impasse, like anti-Zionism.

Sectarianism isn't always a bad thing, sometimes have a strict party line and sticking to it and telling others to fuck off is a benefit to leftist groups. The Bolsheviks rise to power was in part to them sticking to their opposition to the war and not collaborating with parties who were weaker on that position. It's not about having the most leftists it's about having the leftist line that motivates the masses the most.

[–] dil@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

In your opinion, what's the leftist line that will most motivate the masses in the US?

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago

Wish I was smart enough to say.

I think part of the issue is that "the masses" in the imperial core are generally more reactionary and less open to socialist ideas due to their position in the global economy. Socialist ideas have only really gained traction here in recent times with highly marginalized groups within the broader worker class. Also we don't really have a constraint industrial proletarian class, our workers are atomized in distributed tertiary economic activities.

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Lining up healthcare executives and publicly executiveing them

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 4 points 7 hours ago

Probably is if the people calling for that also want to respect trans people and not nuke Iran they're immediately going to turn away from them.