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Cake day: October 14th, 2023

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  • “the left” is whoever and whatever I say it is, so naturally anyone that disagrees with me is a wrecker and the only thing preventing “the left” from achieving electoral power through legal nonviolent political activity in the imperial core

    alternatively

    the overwhelming majority of the popularly understood “left” in the Anglophone world are liberal democrats who support capitalism and white supremacy, so everyone on this website giving anything less than full-throated support for Joe Biden and Kier Starmer is a splitter weakening “the movement”.

    splitting and wrecking in the context of a specific revolutionary party is an organizational problem solved with democratic centralism. complaining about “splitting and wrecking” in the context of an abstract term used specifically to obscure irreconcilable political differences is just being upset that reality doesn’t rearrange itself to conform to terminology. it’s like saying “humanity’s main vulnerability is splitting and infighting; we should shame and bully humans who shame and bully other humans for being wrong”. Rhetorically abstracting away difference doesn’t make difference go away.

    of course, “splitting from or undermining a group is sometimes good and sometimes bad depending on the specific context and conditions” is the kind of banal observation that doesn’t drive social media engagement.