[Farm worker, looking tired] We should improve society somewhat
[smug grinning dude in a well] You’re alienating moderates This is the reason why we can’t have leftist unity I am very smart
[Farm worker, looking tired] We should improve society somewhat
[smug grinning dude in a well] You’re alienating moderates This is the reason why we can’t have leftist unity I am very smart
Revolution will be achieved through collaboration with liberal moderates (hitlerites)
Cool. Are you going to try to convert people or just sit around waiting for them to figure it out? Or try to drag the small far left to your portion of it
The best way to ‘convert’ someone is for them to literally “figure it out” by themselves and start reading political theory via their own volition to grasp the world better rather than get their worldview from inconsistent, barely coherent liberal media slop. It’s impossible to ‘convert’ purely via a singular argument, just look at linux users trying to convert entrenched windows users.
The comment was a reference to how radicalized socialist workers (who’d make up military core and who had demands like worker councils, socialization of industry) would team up with liberal elements in a popular front type of way, only for this front after winning to immediately betray and sideline the worker’s demands. Historical examples: French revolutions, overthrow of Fascist Italy, February revolution in Russia, etc.
Oh ok sorry, us anarchists usually are shot from the front and back by that point, so I tend to forget about that part.
Wait a minute, you think the liberals ruined the February Revolution, buddy, the socialist leadership wasn’t even there for it. What next? Calling the makhnovists libs?
I’m a socialist in favor of left unity, but you need to touch grass, make friends with people who disagree with you, then go back and try to figure out who betrayed Marxist ideals in November of 1917.
Holy shit why is every .worlder so aggressive? I don’t know how you derived such a conclusion from my original comment, so let me explain:
Proletarians, soldiers, peasants and so on overthrew the Tsarists, and in this popular front of sorts proletariat had demands for the liberal provisional government, such as Russia’s withdrawal from WW1, land and labor reforms - things of that nature. The provisional liberal government failed to meet any of that (either via stalling or evading action), and they also didn’t withdraw from the war, and these reasons definitely contributed to November revolution.
Simplified to not make it too long, but that’s the core point - nothing to do with Marxist ideals.
They’re aggressive because they’re smug. They think neoliberalism is the only rational way of thinking.
Anything else that says otherwise, like history, economics, science, social studies, is somehow a personal attack to them. They’ve made neoliberalism a religion.
.world would rather have everyone here be a insufferable liberal who wants nothing but electoralism but will make no concessions to win the popular vote. Fascism brings in good money after all.