Against Israel, Against Palestine - For Class Struggle
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No stronger an image of the essence of nationalism can be seen than in the endless parade of coffins of Palestinians draped in flags. Nationalism is poison in the veins of the working class. Nowhere is this clearer than in Israel today. A working class stands divided and helpless, torn between two hostile bourgeois camps. Though the Israeli side has the entire weight of US imperialist muscle behind it this does not make the camps of Islamism and Palestinian nationalism less an enemy of the Arab workers.

Recently, I found out that Left-Communists largely do not believe in dialectical materialism. This viewpoint sounded preposterous to me, enough so that it piqued my interest to learn more about them and attempt to understand their positions. I came to find out that Left-Communists do not believe in supporting national liberation struggles. Naturally, I wanted to know what they thought about the most pressing national liberation struggle of our time, so I googled “Left-Communism Palestine” and I found this absolutely horrific article.

Just disgusting. I don’t think I need to explain why. The issues begin at the title, and it just gets worse as the article keeps going. There’s no need for me to debunk all its lies, it should be clear to any knowledgeable Marxist-Leninist and anti-Zionist.

This article really got to me, what an insult to all the martyrs who fought against the genocide of their people.

It boggles me that people follow this worthless ideology. It has not done a single thing for the emancipation of the world proletariat. Thankfully, it’s nearly completely relegated to online spaces.

Free Palestine, and victory for the Palestinian struggle.

  • procapra@lemmy.ml
    9·
    9 days ago

    Left communism is a pretty diverse set of ideologies, much like MLism or trotskyism, there are different branches and microtendencies. (gonzaloists and hoxhaists differ from typical MLs, posadists differ from cliffites, etc). Taking one parties stance on the topic isn’t really going to give you the full picture.

    ICT is damenite, an italian leftcom tendency, admittedly I don’t know a whole lot about their modern day line. Damen opposed the cominterns line on national liberation so it checks out though.

    Bordiga (who is the competing ideologue on the italian left) did uphold natlib. While the various ICPs (bordigist parties) don’t necessarily apply natlib the same way as leninists do, I still think the difference is significant. In this article by the ICC (Which is another leftcom tendency) the ICT line on palestine was spared criticism and seen as acceptable, whilst the bordigist parties were critiqued for their “obsolete” natlib lines.

    That being said, yeah imo this article sucked. It sucked when they made it in 2002, it sucks now, and their new articles on the topic are not much better.

    • KalergiPlanner@lemmygrad.mlOP
      7·
      9 days ago

      Interesting. Though maybe not as egregious as this article, I find it a rather sizeable issue that they by-and-large reject the comintern’s line on national liberation. Not that it matters really, Leftcoms are not exactly an influential group.