Exactly! These are real struggles we are forced to confront in real life as we organize. Inevitably, anticommunists will wield the demonized caricatures of AES or otherwise anti-imperialist countries like a club against our movements, no matter the actual relation of said caricatures to reality. The “western left” agrees with them, then hurts their own movement, as saying “this time it will be different” is entirely unconvincing.
These movements also fail like TERFs fail, by demonizing potential allies and isolating themselves.
Yeah that’s true. If I mention that I don’t think Kim Jong Un is literally Satan people get all mad.
Exactly! These are real struggles we are forced to confront in real life as we organize. Inevitably, anticommunists will wield the demonized caricatures of AES or otherwise anti-imperialist countries like a club against our movements, no matter the actual relation of said caricatures to reality. The “western left” agrees with them, then hurts their own movement, as saying “this time it will be different” is entirely unconvincing.
These movements also fail like TERFs fail, by demonizing potential allies and isolating themselves.