• davel@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    S4A rejects China as being AES, which is why I call him an ultra-leftist. For him, China allowing some limited capitalism in the short term for the purposes of rapidly building the productive forces means that China is capitalist, end of story. He fears the scroll.

    Edit to add: I’m generally put off by S4A’s vibe of the unearned confidence that comes with chauvinism. He sounds like your standard imperial core white cishet male labor aristocrat who always thinks he knows best, despite having no experience with real-world socialism.

    • StalinistSteve@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      Very much agree. He was my first intro to reading Marxist texts so I appreciate his work, but when I heard him being a white Amerikkkan that rejects the Black Panthers as a “true communist project” in a livestream really pushed his settler communist tendencies to the forefront and I haven’t listened to his livestreams since.

      Only slightly related, but Palestine really shows how much of a fool so many of these settler communists are. Even MAGA communists and trotskyists have changed opinions on the resistance to be respected in left leaning spheres at all because of how well documented this genocide is but only third/fourth world nationalists and decolonial Marxists have beliefs where this kind of support was always there. Sure as hell don’t see him talking about Burkina Faso and I’m sure if he did he’d call them non-Marxist because they’d rather look to Sankara than Lenin and they’re supported by “Imperialist Russia”

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    I mean PSL are explicitly socialist whereas the Greens are not, but i’m not gonna get upset at someone for voting Greens (unless it’s the German Greens; they’re total lunatics). Neither is perfect, and I think voting either is fine if you live in the US, depending on which you think makes more sense for your district/state. What matters is that you vote against the duopoly and their genocidal warmongering.

    Also, S4A is an ultra, they’re anti-China, they’re not exactly the most credible judge of who is and isn’t revisionist.

  • StalinistSteve@lemmygrad.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    The one thing that gets me is, is PSL trying to be a vanguard party? I’ve had conversations with recruiters before and been told they aren’t looking to be the vanguard party. They could be better and more direct advertising for socialism if they get enough votes to be a known name but from what I’ve been told they lack ambition and preparedness for anything past electoralism.

    PSL’s pro china stance is probably the big stinker for him which is lol, thinking Greens is going to be a mass worker’s party is lol (especially since they 100% would be co opted and deradicalized if they had a chance to win), but that first point is where I’m at with, what I see, as different social democrat parties that need rn to disrupt votes to stop people from only considering red and blue as the extent of politics and clearly showing that this is because of their vocal opposition to genocide.

    That said, it’s American bourgeoise electoralism so it’s hard to care any which way, imo just matters we don’t sell our souls to don or harris and do politics outside of these structures, best organizers I know just aren’t voting this year