• Yes. There is not going to be some cathartic cleansing of the US by outside forces. We have to do it ourselves.

    Posting this because I think it’s very relevant. I don’t read it entirely literally because the article is about Western socialists who criticize AES, the people we would call ultras or leftcoms. I think if you take the article’s principles to heart you can see a certain martyrdom and lack of rigor even among “tankies.” Hexbear has been fairly good today while left reddit seems to be having some struggles.

    Sentiments like:

    • World governments should destroy the US and me along with it
    • World governments should legally punish the US and remove my capitalist overlords from power for me
    • I would rather go die or be arrested doing adventurism this weekend than spend the rest of my life building socialism
    • I am going to go huff tear gas and fight cops this weekend as self-flagellation for the crimes of the US
    • I am going to hook by brain up all social media feeds and self-harm via a stream of war evangelism and horror images. This makes me brave for facing the truth and keeps me informed.
    • Doom doom doom because this just proves that empire is stronger than ever and only compromised socialism can exist as any real movement will be quickly snuffed out of existence.