This and a comment he made regarding how US leftists can’t be persuaded by empathy and solidarity (real anti-imperialist framing in his words) really make me pinch the bridge of my nose. In the latter post he declared that it might be more effective to make Americans think they are being harmed by the US relationship with Israel as an appeal to their inate selfishness.
It just has me scratching my head becuase… is that not the entire idea of material interest? Is it not in the material interest of many anti-imperialist countries to fight Israeli imperialism? Would South Lebanon not be better off if the zionist entity collapsed and it instead bordered a Palestinian state? Would Iran not have more regional influence if there was one less US vassel to contend with? Would the Global South, who are constantly agressed against by Western international lawfare benifet from shifting the paradigm against Western aligned states?
I’m not going to say that the US Palestinian liberation movement is some kind of revolutionary force, or that there isn’t a lot more that could be done, or if they are not infested with liberals. However it’s the peak of idealism to criticize them for agitating to other Americans by appealing to how the zionist entity hurts them. It’s basic Marxist analysis that a people’s material conditions influence their actions.
It’s fucking infuriating that I have to justify my humanity as a Muslim to US Yakkubian liberals, but if I need to explain to them why the US destroying my communities homelands will come back to hurt them, then I still do it. If those Whites start getting upset becuase of them got killed by the fascist militia, I’m still glad that they are starting to oppose the fascist militia. Not because of some idealist notion but because that gets the heat off my back potentially.
I’ve said it before here, I’m not a communist because I’m altruistic, I’m a communist becuase the Liberation of humanity would benifet me.
This and a comment he made regarding how US leftists can’t be persuaded by empathy and solidarity (real anti-imperialist framing in his words) really make me pinch the bridge of my nose. In the latter post he declared that it might be more effective to make Americans think they are being harmed by the US relationship with Israel as an appeal to their inate selfishness.
It just has me scratching my head becuase… is that not the entire idea of material interest? Is it not in the material interest of many anti-imperialist countries to fight Israeli imperialism? Would South Lebanon not be better off if the zionist entity collapsed and it instead bordered a Palestinian state? Would Iran not have more regional influence if there was one less US vassel to contend with? Would the Global South, who are constantly agressed against by Western international lawfare benifet from shifting the paradigm against Western aligned states?
I’m not going to say that the US Palestinian liberation movement is some kind of revolutionary force, or that there isn’t a lot more that could be done, or if they are not infested with liberals. However it’s the peak of idealism to criticize them for agitating to other Americans by appealing to how the zionist entity hurts them. It’s basic Marxist analysis that a people’s material conditions influence their actions.
It’s fucking infuriating that I have to justify my humanity as a Muslim to US Yakkubian liberals, but if I need to explain to them why the US destroying my communities homelands will come back to hurt them, then I still do it. If those Whites start getting upset becuase of them got killed by the fascist militia, I’m still glad that they are starting to oppose the fascist militia. Not because of some idealist notion but because that gets the heat off my back potentially.
I’ve said it before here, I’m not a communist because I’m altruistic, I’m a communist becuase the Liberation of humanity would benifet me.