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.
I agree, I think this type of thinking comes from a place where your class position is the only oppression you experience. It’s a complete flattening of Marxism. The proletariat of imperialist countries do indeed benefit from imperialism, likewise the colonizing proletariat (such as it exists in Israel) do indeed benefit from colonialism. This is not to say that revolution in imperialist countries is impossible, it’s just an acknowledgement of a real hurdle that cannot be ignored.
Yeah, the settler and imperial contradictions have to be dealt with somehow. Living in the US myself, I think about it sometimes with regards to settler stuff. It’s a weird situation cause the indigenous are pretty marginalized (though also very much still here, just not often talked about in media) and the settlers are many of them generations in, with nowhere else to go, but it doesn’t change the fact that people born of settlers like myself are on indigenous land that is not ours. It’s not like some situations historically where working class liberation is synonymous with liberation of indigenous people. It should be, but the settler aspect of things means it doesn’t come easily. If it was just a matter of reaching out to indigenous nations and building solidarity, that wouldn’t be so bad, but a lot of westerners are pretty racist/chauvinist since they benefit from the setup in one way or another. So that makes it harder.
On a lighter note, something I find funny: I wrote my original response without looking at the website itself. I just read the preview text of the website, along with your description of it. Just now, I looked on the website’s About Us and at the bottom, it has a Contact Us. The contact emails are all “white” western places: UK, Italy, Germany, US, Canada, France. It’s pretty much exactly what I would have thought.
White people have been getting MORE racist/chauvinist in recent years, it’s ridiculous, and its a large impediment towards class solidarity and socialism. It’s like they follow marching orders from the bourgeoisie; the bourgeois press tells them terror stories about xyz group, and they just eat it up.
On latter part, just LOL, but quite unsurprising really. Left-Coms are FRINGE even in imperialist countries, meanwhile they’re practically non-existent in imperialised countries.