Trump's dying. He needs the Peace Prize for his ego and 2025 might have been his last chance. Not even the FIFA peace prize can make up for that. /s
This sort of fascist "infighting" might actually be helpful insofar as it makes the imperial aspirations blatantly obvious even to supporters of Machado and the like. In the end, it might turn those supporters against the US invasion as well.
Only a balkanised imperial core is a good imperial core. /s
Probably not the right time yet, as the core is still strong enough.
I think the basic question is how can we mobilise more masses and prevent the right to constantly co-opt our topics and use it for their own agenda. Or: How to praxis?
All good, never mind
Can we use idealist vehicles to teach class consciousness? Punctual and guided agitation in idealist realms to capture the interest for those falling out of the mainstream?
And so we march into our demise with theory-purity, selling Trotzkysit newspapers and educating everyone so they have a degree in ML, whether they want or not (if they don't want, they are not worth it I guess) because we're too good to meet the masses of the proletariat where they are.
What you're "assuming" is your own reading into the topic. If many people have the right feeling to get out of the EU, we shouldn't be arrogant and not meet them where they are but join them and then teach them why the right-wing is based on fiction and lies.
Because what were doing right now in Western Europe obviously doesn't work. Or did I miss the mass demonstrations of communists (not leftists) lately? Isn't it dogmatic to say we should keep doing what doesn't work?
So, a Frexit, just differently. That won't confuse the ordinary prol.
I largely agree with you and I think this entire discussion comes down to praxis. Let me please provide my thoughts below. Happy to see your thinking and keep the exchange going.
Anyone who doesn’t see Class as the primary contradiction is not a leftist.
That would currently be 95+% of Germany, including much of the "Die Linke" in Germany.
There are many small regional cultures in Germany but there is no unifying culture, apart from maybe Vergangenheitsbewältigung.
Again, fully agree here and we see how the Vergangenheitsbewältigung is being distorted by capitalists against Palestinians and anyone criticising Israel in general.
The tactics of marxism change but the strategy and goal never does. A cultural taboo can change in less than a generation, there is nothing permanent in culture. The culture of Germany will not shed capitalist ideas until generations after the revolution. You cant do things the other way around because the capitalist control the intellectual and cultural means of production
If the tactics of Marxism change, why not exploring the idea of applying Marxist praxis in the direction where we speak the language of the proletariat? If we can't raise class consciousness (unless I'm mistaken here, but for Germany this is definitely not the case.), neither can we do it through culture, then how do we get people mobilised?
Germany is very far from proletarian revolution and it has a severe deficit of class consciousness like all western nations. You don’t counter that by choosing to foster false consciousness because that will end up with a false revolution like the 3rd reich.
A Devil's Advocate would say what have been tried by communists in Germany, or the capitalist core, doesn't work, either. Trying to raise class consciousness is apparently not working and if this was the solution, then you are going right with the "Die Linke" who advocates for educating the masses only and is becoming something like the Greens were 30 years ago. By those standards, we always lose against capital, cuz they dictate what people learn. Again, being the Devil's Advocate, Lenin would still wait for the revolution if he wanted to raise class consciousness only.
We do need to reach out to workers but we don’t do it by indulging in nationalism or identity politics.
Of course, correct Theory, but how does that look like in praxis? Because currently, the right is wooing the proletariat into their arms, not the left. And using culture as a vehicle to educate and mobilise people can be a valid way, many socialist countries did and still do that.
Even the program of the KPD in 1918 talks of culture twice (https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/geschichte/deutsch/kpd/1918/programm.htm). One example being in their very first paragraph, as "cultural duty": "On November 9th, workers and soldiers shattered the old regime in Germany. On the battlefields of France, the bloody delusion of Prussian saber-wielding world domination had crumbled. The criminal gang that had ignited the global conflagration and driven Germany into a sea of blood had reached the end of its rope. The people, deceived for four years, who in the service of the Moloch had forgotten their cultural duty, their sense of honor, and their humanity, who had allowed themselves to be used for every atrocity, awoke from their four-year paralysis—before the abyss."
it’ll take me like 2 pages of essay u want me to point out the 20 000 elephants in the room???
Yes
So you'd march together with the reactionary far-right to leave the EU, but then have a banner saying "We're different cuz we're better"?
They might say “I hate the rich” then follow it with “because they are all jews trying to genocide the whites”
Which is exaclty the point of saying they are one inch from the truth. They point out what is going wrong and arrive at ludacris reasons and solutions from that. But they do point out that they "hate the rich".
The rest of your comments in general is just ragebait.
Additionally, she became the President of the EU Commission without being voted in. Was on no list, but became the President. The perfect figurehead for the EU indeed.