#ultraleftism

[lesbianchemicalplant]

Ni Hamás ni Netanyahu.  El pueblo de Israel pervivirá.  El pueblo de Palestina pervivirá.  Sólo necesitan darse una oportunidad y empeñarse en ella. Mientras tanto, cada guerra seguirá siendo sólo el preludio de la siguiente, más feroz, más destructiva, más inhumana. Desde las montañas del Sureste Mexicano. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés. México, octubre del 2023.

machine translation of this part to english:

Neither Hamas nor Netanyahu. The people of Israel will continue to live on. The Palestinian people will continue to live on. [They] only need to take an opportunity and grasp it. Meanwhile, every war will continue to be only the prelude to the next, more fierce, more destructive, more inhuman. From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés. Mexico, October 2023.

“Neither Hamas nor Netanyahu” 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

(again, the Palestinian resistance isn't Hamas alone, they're a large part of the coalition but it's still a coalition of like 10 Palestinian orgs. but this would be no less pathetic and ridiculous a statement even if the resistance fighters were just Hamas)

#ultraleftism #derangement #ezln

[handweavers]

trains myself to reflexively pull out my copy of lenin's left communism an infantile disorder and read highlighted passages to calm me down so i don't become a maoist whenever a white tourist in asia pisses me off

#shaking crying tears in my eyes chanting i will not fall victim to ultraleftism i will not fall victim to ultraleftism

[allnought]

#marxism #communism #memes #shitpost #ultraleft #leftcom

[999-roses]

says a lot when you say "see see pee" and basically call deng revisionist scum in the same video essay. stay mad that chinese ppl arent socializing poverty for the last 4 decades i guess??

#ultraleft westies are. funny lol #meaning their positions don't seem to meaningfully differ from bourgeois liberals in terms of hashtag-chinabad #i cant remember the youtube channel but it was some kind of 'im a 101 leftist informational' video on it #and im lowkey sure that whoever put it on my dash months ago didnt actually watch it. it was mashed into some text on the post #sorry. rummaging thru my draft pile today. this was from months ago #didnt watch the whole thing but i bet they woulda called BRI 'chinese imperialism' #wait maybe i should find the video again. to play chinabad bingo #sinophobia

[dustedandsocial]

This essay examines the antinomy of class struggle, as formulated by Paul Mattick and elaborated by Théorie Communiste. The antinomy can be formulated as follows: while capital accumulates by exploiting wage labor, the reproduction of wage labor reproduces the conditions of exploitation that propel the accumulation of capital. Thus, in reproducing itself, wage labor reproduces the conditions of its own exploitation, which is to say, capital. This means that labor’s gains against capital—better wages and working conditions—are won at labor’s own expense: increasing wages imply an increasing rate of exploitation. Only the abolition of the capitalist class relation can abolish this vicious cycle. The question is whether this abolition requires labor’s seizure of the means of production, or whether these means have become so bound up with capital accumulation that abolishing capital entails relinquishing these means and abolishing production as we know it. Théorie Communiste insists on the latter. Since social production has become inextricable from capital accumulation and the affirmation of labor inseparable from the affirmation of capital, communism as the abolition of capital requires the self-abolition of the proletariat. Class struggle unfolds in the rift between two impossibilities: the impossibility of affirming the proletariat without affirming capital and the impossibility of negating capital without negating the proletariat. Is the possibility of communism inextricable from this rift between impossible affirmation and impossible negation? Or does it require a politics of the rift capable of pinpointing the faultline between these impossibilities?

#Ray Brassier #Théorie Communiste #communism #ultraleft #Paul Mattick #articles

[rgr-pop]

one thing i wouldn't have really guessed if i was only operating online but which has seem to be a pattern irl in d s a is that people seem to use "ultraleft" synonymously with "identity politics" which makes some conceptual sense but makes absolutely no sense. i feel like in the past it may have had more specifically homophobic cache but since this year (between the leak and this election) i almost exclusively heard people use it to refer to abortion related stuff. i heard men say that *having* abortions was ultraleft. i was embroiled in more than one conversation in which abortion advocacy orgs those of us abortionists already think of as being basically concessionist were accused of "ultraleftism." you have to believe me when i tell you there are dsa members calling planned parenthood ultraleft (before someone whispers in their ear that the unionizing planned parenthood techs are "ngo shills" for being pro abortion.) you HAVE to believe me. also i'm pretty sure i semi-recently saw someone post an article about moms 4 housing calling it an ultraleft nimby position but i may be hallucinating

#i'm an ultraleft natalist

[iqragirlhaver]

#ultraleft #workers rights #communism #socialist #leftism #leftcommunism

[sapropel]

Ultraleftism... is a refusal to take into account the ways that existing political realities limit possibilities for action. Ultraleft politics confuses means and ends, muddles the distinctions among goals, strategy, and tactics. Historically, for instance, ultraleftists have dogmatically opposed participating in coalitions with liberals or mainstream politicians.

This tendency severs the idea of commitment to principle from the need to make realistic assessments of the options that exist in the fluid here-and-now; to analyze tough-mindedly our strengths and weaknesses; to think seriously and instrumentally about how to build a constituency within a social base (to “unite the many to defeat the few,” for those nostalgic for old slogans).

Ultraleftism is a maximalist politics. It’s much more about taking positions that express the intensity of one’s commitments than about organizing or building anything. Rather than crafting language to build broad support for a substantively radical program, for instance, ultraleftists prefer potted rhetoric that asserts their bona fides, without concern for communicating outside the ranks of believers.

Class Notes -- Adolph Reed

#mab reads #this is really well articulated and certainly.something I see a lot #and something I've been guilty of from time to time

[prettykikimora]

I say that I'm a Marxist leninist on like 3 spots on my blog it's not a secret like I can lament how both Ukraine and russian nationalists are just pitting red army soldiers against one another in divisions that theyd never had even thought of in the past as some kind of modern got ya like "my ethnic group of guys killed the most fascists 100 years ago" does that make people from Kazakhstan more susceptible to fascism like what's the logic here? Its gross its erasing the historic contributions of each and every soldier and the actions of patriotic soviet Ukrainians reducing the 15 nation alliance to russia, something Russian nationalists do. Saying that is pro Putin now. A diatribe against reactionary nationalism is pro Putin now. Total brainless shit please die. 28 million soviet citizens didn't die for fascism and its beyond insulting to their memories to pretend as though they did because they didnt subscribe perfectly to your decadent pie in the sky ideals about how the world should work. We live in a world of ugly reaction, facts, and violence and the single most successful attempt to curb that mass violence did so without the opinion of westerners soaked in anarchist ultraleft dogshit theory that's never fed a nation, its never provided for the peoples well being, your biggest talking point is brewing fucking bathtub insulin.

[apas-95]

Thoughts on the Shining Path?

I've talked on them before, but, in brief - they're a good example of where ultraleftism and adventurism get you. Which is to say, nowhere. Unsurprisingly 'we bombed this random crowded marketplace because we had a truckbomb left over, but it's okay, the people who did it self-criticised' doesn't get people to support your political programme - and is exactly the kind of banditry that sits opposed to Mao's actual political practice, as exemplified by the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention. More than anything else, they were not responsible to the people, and held the people as their enemies.

[evilsoup]

the two modes of left-wing discourse in relation to the democrats on this site seem to reflect the primary two failed strategies of the comintern - third period "after hitler, our turn" ultraleftism (which led to defeat in germany) and panicked "popular front" liberal tailism (which led to defeat in spain). the third strategy of allying with fascism doesn't see to be so big, though i guess you can draw comparisons with the dipshit version of anti-imperialism which actively cheers on putin or whatever.

obviously this is a farcical repeat of the tragedy of the comintern, as we're talking about tiny numbers who don't represent anyone greater than themselves vs the leadership of the world communist movement completely fumbling the international proletarian revolution and so allowing world capitalism to save itself via a second world war

[labgrownmeat]

I got some questions for ya from the be nosy game

4. What piercings do you want?

14. How would you spend a million dollars?

18. What tattoos do you want?

24. What are three places you want to travel?

43. What’s your guilty pleasure?

48. Describe your ideal partner.

4. besides needing to get my ears re-pierced, i think getting my nose and/or upper lip pierced would be cute.

14. invest most of it and leave myself enough to quit my job for a few years. maybe buy a Reasonable house, somewhere, for myself and a group of friends? that'd be nice

18. i'd like to get either caim or zero's pactmarks tattooed. not ENTIRELY sure where yet. zero pactmark on my lower belly would be cool. also i saw an instagram video earlier today where someone had tattooed the stripes from the top of their cats head on the back of their hand and i'd LOVE that

24. portland (to visit dear friends), toronto (to visit some other friends), japan (to visit zen temples and eat food and take the beautiful wonderful trains)

43. i have no guilty pleasures. i live without shame.

48. whoever the congruent puzzle pieces for a poly ultraleft mostly subby trans girl are. also who is chill and funny and likes to play video games with me. maybe someone who even lives in the midwest united states.

#TY FOR THE QUESTIONS 💜

[handweavers]

1 thing that i think is important to be aware of is that the people online who are the most vocal/posting constantly and fighting with people are usually not people who are members of actual communist parties and if they are they're either part of some weird offshoot branch that split 30 times from the primary party due to interpersonal drama or they are the most annoying person at meetings and will likely be asked not to come back at some point in the near future because they keep causing problems and saying stupid shit online and not actually doing anything helpful lmfao. by virtue of being a poster online their views are usually not even actually representative of marxism leninism but their own view of it built in an online echo chamber that is typically more ultraleft and reactionary than you will find in real life parties with veteran communists who have been actively organizing for decades and those of all ages and abilities who are learning directly from them and not strangers on twitter lol

#like. learning stuff online can be helpful esp if you are someone who cant go to things in person for whatever reason myself included #but please understand that anyone who has the time to post and internet fight constantly is typically an ultra and not ml #even if they claim to be ml lol #whatever #the people who spend their time fighting online are the ones who usually get kicked out of parties for being unbearable to be around

[lesbianchemicalplant]

like, I don't care about University Abolition as a slogan, and it actually is socially necessary to train and certify people with technical skills required to design bridges, perform surgery, etc. there are actual concrete needs for production that can't be abolished with a penstroke (though university degrees for all of these still involve standards and processes that filter out Certain People, e.g. the arbitrary stylistic standards of Academic Writing)

I do think there's more to substantially criticize than for, say, ultraleft posturing about Abolishing Time, Abolishing Measurements, Abolishing Outer Space, etc., which are basically just tantrums and tedious edgy prose to say nothing meaningful (“cocks and cunts light years wide”)

[mightyflamethrower]

Satanic Abortion Idol at University of Houston

Like I was saying, not merely wrongheaded but evil. At the University of Houston:

According to Texas Right to Life, the university plans to publicly display a statue called “Witness,” which the pro-life group described as “an 18-foot tall naked female figure with braids shaped like goat horns and arms like tentacles.” The bronze statue also wears a lace collar in imitation of [ultraleft Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader] Ginsburg’s recognizable style. The university will display the statue from February 28 to October 31, calling it “a platform for artistic expression that encourages critical reflection and exploration of important issues,” according to a recent statement.

Why take it down on Halloween? That is the only day it should be up.

The satanic idol honoring child sacrifice is the work of moonbat artist Shahzia Sikander, whom we have encountered before:

This isn’t just about politics or the convenience of killing unwanted children. Moonbattery is a portal to hell.

Everyday I say it can't possibly get any worse and then next day I wake up to find that it has.

[goatse-syndicalist-69]

it's always funny seeing dengists call maoists ultraleft