LWDT VI: Kropotkin's Bread Dead Redemption.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

Is it the responsibility of western powers to overthrow Assad? If not, we leave them to authoritarianism. If so, we embrace "imperialism".
I care about their liberties insofar as they're willing to fight for them.

I am a communist internationalist. As I see it, there is no us and them. We are all responsible for one another. Imperialism, or hegemony, is a contradiction to communist internationalism.

[Northern Davincia]

Is it the responsibility of western powers to overthrow Assad? If not, we leave them to authoritarianism. If so, we embrace "imperialism".
I care about their liberties insofar as they're willing to fight for them.

I am a communist internationalist. As I see it, there is no us and them. We are all responsible for one another. Imperialism, or hegemony, is a contradiction to communist internationalism.

If we are all responsible for one another, why not use imperialism to "liberate" Syrians from Assad?
I am of the opinion that it's not our responsibility, because it doesn't affect us.

[Reikoku]

Imperialism isn't destroying the world.

Tell that to the people in Syria or Yemen.

Syria and Yemen are two small authoritarian countries. Neither of them are the world.

[Ryukyu]

Reminder that Bush is loved by the Kurds

really proof

[The Liberated Territories]

Reminder that Bush is loved by the Kurds

really proof

https://www.foxnews.com/world/love-amer ... gs-us-bush
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exm5 ... merica-724

[Kubra]

Reminder that Bush is loved by the Kurds

No surprise, really. Ideology is ideology, but this is the guy who humiliated Saddam.

[Northern Davincia]

really proof

https://www.foxnews.com/world/love-amer ... gs-us-bush
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exm5 ... merica-724

It brings a tear to my eye. My favoring of an independent Kurdistan is much higher.

[The National Salvation Front for Russia]

I've come to the radical and completely new conclusion that banning the popularisation and spreading of Nazi/Fascist propaganda is something good, not bad.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

https://www.foxnews.com/world/love-amer ... gs-us-bush
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exm5 ... merica-724

It brings a tear to my eye. My favoring of an independent Kurdistan is much higher.

The Kurds are quite the resilient bunch.

[Fahran]

IMO, imperialism and the U.S. have, sadly, become almost indistinguishable. As autonomist Marxists say, the U.S. is the Empire.

Setting up independent republics is not peak imperialism.

[Luminesa]

I've come to the radical and completely new conclusion that banning the popularisation and spreading of Nazi/Fascist propaganda is something good, not bad.

Not sure if that’s a new conclusion, actually.

[The National Salvation Front for Russia]

I've come to the radical and completely new conclusion that banning the popularisation and spreading of Nazi/Fascist propaganda is something good, not bad.

Not sure if that’s a new conclusion, actually.

It's not, I was being sarcastic. Although I support any measure to throw Nazis out of political discourse as good and decent.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

If we are all responsible for one another, why not use imperialism to "liberate" Syrians from Assad?
I am of the opinion that it's not our responsibility, because it doesn't affect us.

We have no world government, which I would like to see, so who is the we that would do that? I certainly would not trust the U.S. in matters of international affairs.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

Syria and Yemen are two small authoritarian countries. Neither of them are the world.

The world is made [edit: up] of countries of all sorts. If you are in Syria or Yemen, that is your world. I could care less about governments. I care about the people in those societies.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

I've come to the radical and completely new conclusion that banning the popularisation and spreading of Nazi/Fascist propaganda is something good, not bad.

Banning rarely works with most things. They just go underground. It is better, IMO, to simply keep a close eye on them.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

Setting up independent republics is not peak imperialism.

It depends on which country or entity is doing it and their motivations.

[Dumb Ideologies]

I've come to the radical and completely new conclusion that banning the popularisation and spreading of Nazi/Fascist propaganda is something good, not bad.

Depends what you mean by "Nazi/fascist" and "spreading propaganda" because the former term is massively over/misused by the internationalist left and the latter has regularly been used by authoritarians across the spectrum as a euphemism for criminalising groups they don't like for merely existing or pursuing non-dangerous individuals for reasonably articulating their views.

[Mardla]

Just pretend for a moment it's someone who drove at a crowd of Nazis because they were closed in and felt threatened.

That's not what happened, and it was clearly premeditated, as he posted on social media about his desire to kill people in the crowd.

No, of course, it's not what happened, the politics were different. Fact is, if it were a black man driving into white nationalists and felt threatened, premeditated murder would not seem like a correct charge.

Premeditated would suggest he went there with the intention of doing it and planned it up until the incident. That he was prepared to do it, and that he backed the car up, means he is clearly culpable for multiple counts of ADW and vehicular manslaughter.

As a traditionalist, I'd just as soon he get strung up, but I've seen someone convicted for ADW and given two years for stabbing someone with a steak knife repeatedly (the guy survived). If we're going by the way things tend to be enforced, politics played a big role in the charges.

[Valrifell]

I have no idea of what the means, but if it makes you happy, go for it. I feel no ire for anyone. I do, however, despise certain positions.

What is preferable, revolution or reform?

We can romanticize the Revolution later and it gets things done in a timely pace.

The only downside is the near-inevitable temporary total collapse of civil order, but you give and you take.

[Mardla]

I've come to the radical and completely new conclusion that banning the popularisation and spreading of Nazi/Fascist propaganda is something good, not bad.

Hitlerites are politically irrelevant, so I don't see the point. If they weren't, that would be another story.

[Reikoku]

I've come to the radical and completely new conclusion that banning the popularisation and spreading of Nazi/Fascist propaganda is something good, not bad.

Hitlerites are politically irrelevant, so I don't see the point. If they weren't, that would be another story.

Better to nip it in the bud before it grows.

[Mardla]

Hitlerites are politically irrelevant, so I don't see the point. If they weren't, that would be another story.

Better to nip it in the bud before it grows.

Hitlerites aren't even a bud. Socialists are a bud.

[Mardla]

Syria and Yemen are two small authoritarian countries. Neither of them are the world.

The world is made [edit: up] of countries of all sorts. If you are in Syria or Yemen, that is your world. I could care less about governments. I care about the people in those societies.

Should we send weapons to the yellow vests?

[Genivaria]

Better to nip it in the bud before it grows.

Hitlerites aren't even a bud. Socialists are a bud.

A Nazi backed President is currently in office, clearly it's the peaceful reformist socialists who are the problem.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Hitlerites aren't even a bud. Socialists are a bud.

A Nazi backed President is currently in office, clearly it's the peaceful reformist socialists who are the problem.

Nazis have been endorsing presidential candidates since Rockwell brought the ideology back. It's pretty meaningless to just throw that out like it means something.