comrade_zoloft

Well, I need to get this off my chest somewhere, and I think you guys are the best people to understand it.

A friend I’ve known for almost eight years has been acting really strange lately regarding Zionism and anti-Semitism. Sure, we’ve both always been on the left and openly anti-Zionist, but in recent months he’s been very fixated on the possible sale of land in our country to Israeli businessmen, and from that point on he started falling into a lot of anti-Semitic propaganda that seems straight out of “Europe: The Last Battle.”

I’ve had conversations with him about how important it is to separate ethnicity/culture from its most fascist manifestations, and that we must remain vigilant so as not to fall for propaganda that only serves to turn you into an anti-Semite and thus “justify” Israel.

But no matter what I say, he sticks to his almost Strasserist or National Bolshevik stance, completely denying the Holocaust, treating all Jews as fake victims and claiming that “their entire culture is wrong,” yet still sharing pro-left content mixed with material typical of “traditional and conservative” 14-year-olds.

The situation makes me very sad, mainly because I know he’s a kind-hearted person who’s had a rough life, but I don’t know—I’ve been through the same thing and learned to stand firm against fascist propaganda.

Before this whole thing, he started to share a lot of anti immigrant, kinda racist things but I was able to talk him out of it, but now he doesn't realize he is doing the same thing as before. Or maybe he does.

I used to send him a lot of anti-racist propaganda like the one in the picture but now I feel I completely lost him.

I just need a hug.

I was an anarchist for a huge part of my life (most of my teenage years) and kinda began to get more connected with M-L and stuff like that, and I would call myself a marxist. Yet, everytime I talk with other leftist I either get called a tankie or an anarkiddie. If I recommend Das Kapital, I'm a state bootlicker or a left wing fascist. If I talk about how I prefer direct democracy but know that the process to communism is slow and needs some help of a state, I get called an anarkiddie. Anyway, I just find exhausting the infighting. I already struggle a lot with mental health just to be poorly treated by other people that, supposedly, want the same as all of us. Anyway you guys in lemmygrad have been always so nice, thanks btw. Have a nice week and thanks for reading my small rant.

Personally, I grew up on a single parent home, where I saw my mom get destroyed by her office work. The lack of unions, no external help and general misoginy, made her get super depressed, and became an alcoholic. In my teenage years I was almost lured by the manosphere communities, but got helped by a group of close friends that were left leaning. Most of them were anarchist, so I started with that. Slowly but surely, I started to understand how sick this system is, and it made me furious, but I never found a way to show my ideas. No political party represented my ideas, and I fell deeper in the anarchist rabbit hole. Yes, I was a hardcore anarkiddie, but I bite me back. When I needed them the most, they turned their backs on me, and fell into deep depression. And in seeking psychological help, my counselor recommended me going back to my roots. So I went back to videogames, japanese culture and most importantly, read again after years The Communist Manifesto. I still don't know how to position myself in the left, but I know that I'm a Marxist, and that I want change. Stay safe, comrades.

So, I'm currently living in Japan and, the place I am is full of either right wing people or "don't care about politics" people. Is there any community in Japan for lefties?

Also, have a nice day comrades. Times are difficult now, so take care of your mental health and keep fighting!

(Photo is from a random japanese house with Communist Party posters)