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  • This point here, that from what I understand of Trotskyist theory, one of the longest standing trotskyist-communist newspapers in the U.S, with a history of being mostly based, becoming targeted by COINTELPRO itself, that this swing to a pro zionist stance is especially contrarian to their interpretation of theory. As a matter of fact, from what I’ve seen, it seems counter to the very most central parts of their theory. This is what strikes me as especially strange.



  • From what I understand of Trotskyist theory, Palestinian resistance seems like something their doctrine would HIGHLY support, even more so than ‘Stalinists’ or other Marxists, because of their ‘endless revolution’ line. That’s kind of their whole thing, pretty central to trotskyists, their interpretation of endless revolution. Also to clarify, I am not trotskyist, but I did do some digging into it and into their own talking points, interpretations, and conclusions. I feel understanding most doctrines fairly in depth is important.










  • Oh no I appreciate the details, and yeah that is kinda dumb. Isn’t one of the tentants of communism that (I just woke up and smoked a bowl so sorry if I’m mis remembering WHO said it exactly) I’m pretty sure Lenin himself talked on was that the communist movement, revolution, and following state will look different in every region as geography, culture, and the current and future evolving political climate all create different conditions that we would have to find new and working solutions too. I’m an advocate of “Yeah shit’s gunna get messy sometimes, so it’s best to accept that, but to try and experiment with different policies in different parts of the region to see what works best both for the people, and for staying stable and sustainable, and we should strive to TRY different things as communists so we can find the things, whether structure of labor or production to ecological protections, what WORKS best for everyone.” It seems wild to me that some people think we can just rely completely on theory. Yes its VERY important, but so is real world and practical experience, shit happens that no one expects and you gotta find solutions. That’s just life.


  • Ohhh okay. When he said north I thought they were referring to the Native population concentrated in the north part America. I guess for those that don’t know here in America for a long time (generally white people) referred to Natives as Indians as well, and I was raised by uh… well let’s say a family with some opinions on 'em, so it kinda didn’t register for me they were asking about the country. (Yes, I know native american is the proper term, it’s what I use but my southern american ears have kinda just gotten used to hearing it being talked about both ways growing up) But to answer the question on if southern americans being more conservative than the northern Indians in India, again, I’m not too familiar with the current demographic. I did some reading of WWII and Ghandi era resistance and what not but I’m not sure how the repressive right wing elements have evolved into the modern day as I just haven’t kept up. I didn’t know india even had a large conservative demographic, as I’ve last heard a few years ago I think now that India had one of the largest socialist / communist protest in history, thought i read that damn near a million or more people covered the streets in an ocean of red and black flags. But that’s about my most recent knowledge of their internal political situation, if I’m being honest. I wouldn’t mind being enlightened to whatever’s going on there though, that’s for sure!