revolutionary defeatism means critically supporting the opponents of your own side
Lenin didn't meant that the SPD has to gather money to send to the Tsarist army though.
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If you look at campaigns it is easier to organize younger union members and the trend in small areas in Germany is positive. It is true that from the 80s till after the end of history union membership was falling very fast. However now new members can be kinda easily be won - even though class consciousness is lacking. This is true also for people with Ausbildung / Vocational training, who were harder to organize 20 years ago.
I do agree with a lot of what is said, but want to underline that this was the perspective of a likely older left person, who was likely part of resistance to revolutionary intersectionality (in contrast to liberal one). However of course not having mass organizations and millions in financing and expropriations against the left means that you will have it harder.
While squats are good and you had a good left support - even after the German Herbst - in the mainstream society you did not really have stuff like DWEnteignen or a principled fight against the end of Wohngemeinnützigkeit, those things and how gentrification relates to capitalism was something that had to be worked out for the public conscious after the reunification. Even plenty of the left did decry the Neue Heimat instead of defending it and framing the argument as attack against collective partial solutions. The split between migrant workers (who were often not really allowed in established unions - and who did awesome stuff i.e. Ford Streik 1973) is also less prominent now than it was, however racists are more upfront than they once were in some way (and are less upfront than in earlier times). In the early 90s I was part of a leftist group in which there was a discussion whether gay members ought to be allowed to be visible not hetero passing or if this would be bad for communist organizing in the Neue Länder.
Relative to the very good strength East socialized left people had in the early 90s (without economic base for it though) we are much worse off. But the trend is positive once again, different than in the early 2000s.
May have a gun
Really US cop propagandists, really?
Depends on the Ren fair, trans buddies of mine are frequent visitors, performers and enjoyers of them for decades and rarely had they problems (read on the level of every day stuff, with drunk people a bit more; rarely less). But the ones where they had problems they often had problems continuously.
This is speaking about German city states and some Ren Fares outside, but also for Danish ones.
For negative experiences: In Germany you have a couple of nationalist rigth wing folk people on some Ren Fairs, who try to connect with "Pagan" "Eso" aesthetics to the environment. This might not be the case so much in other places.
The US influence on Israel before 1960 is interesting, too. After the Soviet support for Israel the US tried hard to booster the less left wing elements and had quite some success with it. This doesn't mean that Israel was controlled by the US, but that the critically supported leftist projects got less power and influence over time.
that so many people are entirely disenfranchised by their apartheid system
In Berlin more than 20% of the adult population isn't allowed to vote. In most Israel cities that number is lower. So if you use that attack do absolutely turn it into the imperial core, too, and call out their racism, national chauvinism and white supremacy.
no one should be homeless
Exactly
Unconscionable
What is a Conscionable rate of houselessness?
I did not have that on my bingo card for this year.
Graeber's Debt the first 5000 years does talk a bit about:
the difference between money and currency before
Graeber's The Dawn of Everything shows you are wrong. Capitalism isn't natural and communism is "naturally" occurring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communist_parties_in_Nepal
Nepal's communist and "communist" parties are a very complex and complicated topic.
The question is who you support though, and revolutionary socialists, including Lenin, didn't give money to the Tsar, Metternich, or George V. They sought out different avenues. Supporting revolutionary groups, articles, only in limited cases sabotages, some criminal acts which disturbed the military supply chains and agitation within the military.
This is a far cry from thinking it is enough to be public about critical support of governments online. The latter would be the equivalent of :vote: for anti-imperialists. The former a principled response that actually figures out what the critical means.