LeninWeave

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[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hexbear is a Troskyist website. The News Mega is a Newspaper.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I think we should get crystal clear on this: targeting civilians is an intentional tactical choice of both Hamas and the PLO.

I agree. I'm sure that the IDF has greatly exaggerated the level of violence committed by Palestinian fighters, but there's a tendency in western leftist spaces to present violence against settler "civilians" as unjustifiable and argue that it was accidental or that it didn't happen.

I've said it before: when you're being colonized, it's ridiculous for the colonizers to expect you to limit any violence you might commit in your struggle for liberation to only targets they say you can attack (heavily fortified military positions armed to the teeth, so that you can be pointlessly slaughtered).

The settlers forced Palestinians into a ghetto and murdered and abused them for decades while living on the stolen land. These tactics are the only option Palestinians have left, because Israel has made it clear that violence is the only language it's willing to speak. It doesn't mean that every person that dies deserves to, but that's not the point. Israel holds all the cards. All the violence in this conflict could stop today if they chose it. This is only happening because all other options were foreclosed to the Palestinians.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't necessarily disagree with you, which is why my opinion is that academia in the west has no revolutionary potential at this time. That could definitely change in the coming years as the contradictions of capitalism intensify.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I know all of this. I was replying to your comment, and I didn't say any of the things you're implying here. All I said was that western academia isn't any worse than western society, it's a part of western society. Often it's even a bit better.

There are based teachers who've been jailed, tortured, murdered and disappeared for protesting fascism. There are also teachers like my old history instructor, a coward who said that the transatlantic slave trade wasn't a crime against humanity because "it was legal at the time."

The vast majority of academics in the west are liberals. With extremely few exceptions, none of them are being jailed, tortured, or murdered for anything. That was the point of my comment. In my opinion academia in the west, as a whole, has no real revolutionary potential at this time.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

There are based teachers who've been jailed, tortured, murdered and disappeared for protesting fascism. There are also teachers like my old history instructor, a coward who said that the transatlantic slave trade wasn't a crime against humanity because "it was legal at the time."

In the west, there's a lot of the latter and almost none of the former. I'm not anti-intellectual, but western academia often only opposes the status quo when it can be sure to do it in a useless way. The most widespread views are liberal because they have the ideological and material support of the ruling class. The problem isn't that it's worse than the rest of western society, the problem is that it's part of the rest of western society.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Muslim Students Association at this same university is urging everybody not to go.

Pathetic lmao. Imagine caring more about your petty reactionary grievance than supporting the Palestinian struggle.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

and if both-sidesing it stops working for whatever reason, China would side with Israel

I doubt that, because Israel's economy relies on Chinese trade far more than the other way around and siding with Israel in a situation where "both sides" is no longer an option would likely destroy their political relationships with a huge portion of the third world.

The only situation I can think of where "both sides" is no longer an option would be a world war. Siding with Israel would mean siding with Amerikkka, and that option is clearly not possible for China and would be a terrible, self-destructive move even if it was.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe the released hostages are ideological converts.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - Elderly Grandmothers of Tel Aviv

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

Br*tish people have to be warned when someone might show emotion like an actual human being.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

clueless Surely this won't backfire at all.

matt-jokerfied I'm going to lose it when liberals start to justify this as "opposing Hamas" in the FUCKING WEST BANK.

Edit: ISRAEL ALREADY CLAIMING IT WAS AN ATTACK ON HAMAS. idf-cool

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