I think material conditions should determine whether a nation needs to be liberated or not.

It’s not a liberation if they aren’t oppressed, nor is it a liberation if the “liberators” are just going to oppress them in the same way.

Okay the cat part is kinda cringe but they have a point: Israel can indoctrinate as many children into being murderous pedophiles as it wants but there will always be those who escape the programming. Most of them will probably end up as liberals who think they can UwUify Zionism into something progressive but some particularly based individuals will be able to see through that bullshit and recognize the white supremacist settler-colonialism for what it is: the same fascist beast that murdered their grandparents in gas chambers.

That being said it’s entirely fair to assume any Israeli you meet is not that self-aware. Most aren’t and probably will never be.

“I hope they kill you” is not criticism.

If people want to leave that’s fine but somebody needs to put in the work necessary to dismantle the empire from within. “Just leave” is a solution for individuals; not the masses as a whole.

Some of us are too poor to leave anyhow.

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This appears to be a Brazilian party. I asked about a U.S. org as I live in the USA. I can’t really directly participate in an organization in another country, much less one on an entirely different continent.

Yeah, Western orgs do seem kinda pathetic these days. Very disappointed to hear they reject the obvious settler-colonial structure of America. How any Marxist can come to that kind of conclusion I have no idea. Patriotic Socialism maybe?

I kind-of agree on the recruitment drive thing but also it’s a lot easier to do good work the more people you have. But yeah, recruitment shouldn’t be their first priority. That kinda gives me Kautsky vibes.

Oh I’m sure it’s a supremely racist tirade about how Niger’s resources belong to France and anti-West Africans are Russian puppets with no agency of their own.

These people genuinely believe Putin is some kind of autocrat lmao.

How they can simultaneously reconcile the fact that oligarchs control Russia with the myth that Putin is all-powerful and controls everything is mindboggling.

They really do seem to believe that everything Russia does is because Putin demands it and that if he were removed it would stop doing those things smh.

Great Man Theory is a blight.

What bad things have you heard?

That’s disappointing to hear. Any serious communist org in the US should understand how important it is to be an anti-colonial movement.

That’s good to know about PSL, though. I might give them another look, thanks.

That is troubling, but it could just be a chapter issue rather than the org as a whole.

I was interested in PSL for a while - especially during the election when they first came to my attention - but I’ve worrisome stories about senior members abusing their authority to sexually harass female members. As a woman myself that makes me hesitant to throw in with them.

I’m not familiar with this acronym; who are they? Can you tell me anything about them?

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Reddit is genuinely a repulsive place where the worst people with the worst takes go to jerk each other off.

“Propaganda” isn’t a bad thing.

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They still are.

The antagonistic attitudes that some feminists demonstrate when talking about these issues is entirely understandable tbh.

Most feminists are women (obviously) and womens’ opinions, perspectives, needs, wants, & feelings are regularly being dismissed by our patriarchal society. The lack of value in our words, thoughts, and experiences lead to regular abuse, abandonment, isolation, and gaslighting. This is doubly so for feminists - who expressly reviled & ridiculed often by the public & institutions alike.

Naturally this leads to frustration, bitterness, and hostility. We get tired of being mocked and ignored while trying to discuss the nature of our oppression, its origins, and how to resolve it.

I don’t and can’t blame feminists who are more confrontational. I know what their feeling and I get it. The onus is on men to start listening to women if they want women to talk to them about womens’ liberation and gender equality.

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