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Okay, so the united states is committing genocide in partnership with israel, and in defense of its broader middle east strategy which was struck a blow on Oct 7. Biden is at the head of that, and unapologetic about it. He is a genocidaire.
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We don't talk about the George Floyd Rebellion enough. That was the closest we've ever gotten to a general strike. The most important moment of push back against this system in 40 years. It proved what we're capable of and terrified the ruling class. Step 1 is getting back there.
The George Floyd protests taught us that politicians literally only respond to riots and that’s it. There’s nothing else you can do except let the kids set precincts on fire and send bricks through Starbucks windows. That’s all we’ve learned for the past four years.
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🧵Police are far weaker and much more likely to break and run than most of us think. Their training is organized around keeping themselves as individuals safe at all times. And so they are selective about when and how they use violence vs. running away. 1/8
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The ruling class is saying they may need to bring in the National Guard to shut down a relatively small encampment in a city with a police dept the size of a standing army. If true, and that's a big if, the movement has already broken thru the first line w/out firing a shot. /FTP
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Like bullies, they use violence when it's obvious the victim can't or won't fight back effectively. Even then they will call for absurd amounts of backup. When people are able to fight, they will usually back off and then bring in overwhelming numbers to swarm them. 2/8
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This was terrifying to the bourgeoisie, which saw its first line of defense effectively clock out in way too many instances. Which is why they are now building Cop City projects across the country. 4/8
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This is what we saw in the George Floyd Rebellion. When the police could no longer overwhelmingly outnumber smaller groups of people, they left the streets to the rebellion. 3/8
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At which point, they send the National Guard. That they're already threatening this in NYC is an incredible admission of how weak they are in this moment. Again, this is a morale and ideology problem for them, not a weapons and training problem. 7/8
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They think that training cops in urban warfare is going to create a force that won't run away at the sight of overwhelming numbers in a proper rebellion. But it's not a matter of training, as much as its a matter of morale and ideological commitment. 5/8
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The fundamentally self-serving "thin blue line" ideology, the culture of self-preservation, and the limits of police loyalty to the bourgeoisie all come to the fore in any confrontation where the masses take the streets in numbers that can't be kettled or swarmed. 6/8
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The interplay of AOC, Bowman, JVP, CPUSA, business unions, and the right wing of the DSA over the last week is illuminating. For those who couldn't see before, it's all there now. If you oppose the genocide of the Palestinian people, then you support their Resistance. 1/3
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High school walkouts across the country would be a powerful escalation from the masses.
This Friday, high schoolers at Iowa City’s City High are skipping school and having a demonstration on the school lawn in solidarity with Palestine and pro Palestinian student protestors across the country. The kids are indeed alright.
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@generalperiwin1
H5N1, dollar hegemony cracking, losing two wars at once, openly committing genocide, a cost of living crisis, two senile psychos vying to head the system, "progressive" buffer falling apart on the left, and natural disasters becoming the norm... Lot of triggers in all that.
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@inara_cries
The US routinely messes with undersea fiber optic cables, breaking them temporarily in order to place taps on them, etc. The US is one of the only countries in the world that is even able to access them. Some of this info was released by Snowden.
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Progressives (Ocasio-Cortez, Bowman, Sanders) are trying to triangulate a position between opposing genocide (AIPAC bad) and supporting genocide (Biden good). It's despicable. They and their supposedly socialist/communist supporters should recant or be driven from our movements.
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@HarronWawker
When the Catholic Church finally comes out as gay, there's gonna be one hell of a party.
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This is right, but it should be added what you're up against in that work. PSL has millions of dollars of support from wealthy donors. It has professional staff. It has a large, centralized media apparatus. It has chapters and related organizations across the country. 🧵
and yet still the solution remains the same: out organize them. many people arrive onto a movement scene looking for some crew they can roll with, to trust. They look to be part of something. If u and ur autonomous crews are all opaque and unjoinable, ppl will go to PSL
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If you support the global fight against US imperialism, then you support the fall of the United States. If you support the fall of the United States, then you support revolution at home. If you support revolution, these people are standing in your way. 3/3
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@EimonWright
It was rehearsal for more advanced rebellions. It was the first multi-racial nationwide rebellion re: police murder of Black ppl. More than anything it scared the ruling class and we know it, and they know we know it, and that's huge. It will happen again, hopefully very soon.
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If you support the Palestinian Resistance, then you support their allies in the Axis of Resistance. If you support the Axis of Resistance, then you support the global fight against US imperialism. 2/3
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🧵 I cannot stress enough the need to read politics dialectically. Everything is in motion. Political vision is the art of aiming at a moving target, imagining contingencies multiple moves ahead based on the underlying historical trajectory of a principle contradiction.
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It's funny hearing all these wise and serious DSA liberals and zionists talk abt how WOL's protest would be ineffective, not smart, nooby politics, etc. And yet everyone in DSA has been compelled to take a position on it. Friend, that's the result of high level political praxis.
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The most radical proposition in the United States, with respect to revolutionary socialism, starts from the position that it’s possible to win in North America and in our lifetime. From that position, and only that position, can a path to seizing state power be mapped. 1/
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The Global South shows us how, w/ the steadfastness & unity of fields of the Palestinian Resistance, aggressive protests in Kenya, and ppl power in Bolivia. But anointed leaders boxing out revolutionary politics is a major hurdle for us. Another is fear. Another self interest.
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🧵We need a change of perspective in our movement: The enemy is not simply over there. It is precisely the same enemy that dominates domestically. I mean this literally. The zionist movement is based in the US, including the domestic fascist movement nominally called MAGA.
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@EimonWright
First they retreated, giving lip service to reform and even defunding in some cases. Then they attacked, cracking down with arrests and charges against hundreds around the country. Then they prepared for next time: large increase in funding for police, jails, and surveillance.
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This entire thread from Steinberger is a concentrated dose of normalizing liberalism, demonstrating how they are consciously derailing the movement to end the genocide in Gaza. Read her whole thread. My critical response to the "victories" being declared follows: 🧵
So yesterday we had quite the victory at Uni Lausanne for both the Palestinian rights student movement, and for the university as a whole against political violence & silencing pressure. No time to detail the whole thing, will just add links.
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Image: Keystone/Valentin Flauraud
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Simpler explanation, born out by previous rounds of teasing ceasefires & increased aid: these are diplomatic/media campaigns to quiet dissent and calm world governments in order to prolong the genocide in the hopes that israel will somehow defeat the resistance in Gaza.
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One problem with the imaginations of climate scientists is their severe lack of humanities education. They don't understand politics, and they haven't studied history. 1/7
I always find these "viable path" arguments wishful thinking, presented as if the past has no bearing on our future, and that there is no component of inertia to society's trajectory
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On the question of electoral politics, read Lenin's "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder. He writes about political development on two sides: legal struggle (elections) and illegal struggle (underground). Where to focus efforts depends on the political context. 1/5
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@matt_boot_
This is actually what "taking back" the universities looks like. Cutting out the administrators and centering the institution around the relationship of students/teachers managing their own affairs. I mean, that's how the institution started to begin with, see Bologna.
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This is the dark side of that "diversity of tactics" stuff. It can be a cop out for non-militant forces to sit on the sidelines and let others take the hits (physically, legally, etc). Let militants sacrifice, then recapture the narrative when they're repressed by the State.
if you talk about "anarchists" (which like I've said tends to be used as a catch-all for militants, especially by ppl who don't like militants) as ppl who are only good to be sacrificed, I'm going to say something back, yes.
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They're trapped. The system exercises coercion thru labor discipline (LD). Keep busy or you can't pay cost of living. Even ppl making well over what's needed, if they stop they can lose it all, albeit with a longer runway. We need ruptures in labor discipline to take action. 1/2
Can any parents help me understand why this is not motivating them to get involved for the sake of their kids or to even tweet about it?
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Into the breach come anarchist (and liberal) political actors. Thank god for the anarchists (side-eye to liberals). If it weren't for them the movement would still be limited to demonstrating pathos, rather than hard confrontation with institutions and disruption of logistics.
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If I were to make a prescription for how to get out of this self-defeating cycle, it would be that the confrontational political line and tactics of the anarchist movement needs to be advanced via a more rigorous level of organization: a confrontational communist party.
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@seanmc_99
The 2020 rebellion was Stop Cop City, but the entire country. SCC doesn't happen w/out the 2020 rebellion. Both because Cop City doesn't happen & b/c there's no experience of fighting directly over policing in such militant terms. Posing the two against each other is nonsense.
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And so, the socialist/communist left is stuck between the rock of PSL's opportunism and the hard place of DSA's disorganization. The most prominent organizations ppl looking to be a part of the mvt will find are both ineffective at pushing the confrontational politics we need.
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@HarshaWalia
AOC is utterly bankrupt of any political legitimacy in a moment like this. The DSA/WFP/DEM coalition stands for nothing, and will not stand.
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It's not an accident that the left rises in the core when the colonies & neo-colonies stand up (Palestine, Sahel, Kanaky). Our mvts reinforce one another. An advance on either side creates space for the other, consolidating as both symptom & cause of the crisis of imperialism.
Everyone stand up for The Internationale 🫡🇫🇷🌹
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This was all conscious class war. They lost labor discipline because of the pandemic. To re-discipline people they increased the cost of living and withdrew state support, returning us to the level of dependence on capitalists that prevailed prior to 2020. Actually worse now.
Price gouging was so bad that the Fed raised interest rates in response. For most ppl, higher rates affect us by making it more expensive to get a mortgage or a car loan.
So to get "inflation" under control... they inflated the cost of the two biggest monthly bills for most ppl.
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This is the path to a general strike. Not that it will spread from this call. It won't. But a consistent drumbeat for breaking labor discipline, even the discipline coming from union leaders, louder and louder sets the stage.➡️
Have you heard? 👀 Tomorrow, UCI has been called to "stand up" in striking under the UAW 4811 ULP Strike. Here’s what we have to say:
As employees and researchers at the UC, withholding our labor from the war profiteering entity is the minimum. There's no doubt about that.
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Though PSL has far fewer mbrs than DSA, it is a more impactful organization than DSA at the national level. DSA spends most of its time publicly arguing over bureaucratic control between factions, at the national level, while its main impacts are uncoordinated and local.
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@NiaFrome
The best things about Andor are the speeches inciting rebellion, the images of the masses rebelling, and the way the contempt turns to fear in the eyes of their oppressors. The cloak & dagger is overemphasized, but it's a real aspect of underground work in a revolutionary mvt.
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Respectfully, I disagree with such a stark division between the two. Good speeches prepare the ground for action. They provide reason for action. They train our weapons on the enemy. They inflame our passions and steel our resolve. We need more good speeches to drown out the bad
giving radical speaches and taking radicals actions are 2 different things. for ppl trained in expressing their ideas, such as students, its sometimes hard to tell the difference. we say this without judgement, but it has to be made clear. we need to physically resist this shit.
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This serious/unserious angle is laughable. They've an extensive record of failure, from Bernie to the voting records of their endorsed candidates. Everything is worse than in 2016. They aren't abt power, they're abt access & careers, with their heads firmly up their own asses.
This is deeply unserious. A free Palestine in our lifetimes requires those of us in the US to be effective and clear about power.
AIPAC is the enemy point blank period.
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@kalonge93
Better, drop the pessimism. Recognize the urgency & the opportunity right now for massive social change. If you're alive today, everything is on the table & everything is at stake. That is not exaggeration. Support the youth, clear space for them, but get right yourself as well.
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That the ruling class is putting these two up on a stage to perform "democracy" makes it very clear that they are in crisis.
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But then, the anarchists come up against the wall of having to "out organize" all these other political groupings, from the larger socialist organizations like PSL and DSA, to the ever present blob of liberal operators. At this stage, they don't appear to be equipped to do it.
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The question of resistance is the dividing line in our movement. Increased push back and deflection on whether resistance is justified, strategic, or safe is a sign that the forces of liberalism, opportunism, and normalization are on the defensive for the 1st time since 2020.
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The people yearn for a different path of struggle. We need to build that alternative path. We need to build the infrastructure of resistance, the underground, before we come back to thinking about whether electoral participation makes tactical sense or not. 5/5
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We have been trained to think of politics in an extremely constrained way. From the narrow focus on legal methods: coverage in ruling class media, elections, permitted marches, 501c3 social work, empty sloganeering and academic debate.
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That ruling class & its collaborators, left & right, want nothing more than for us to believe that the George Floyd Rebellion was a failure. But the GFR was just a first draft, a dress rehearsal for the next rebellion. Compare it to previous rebellions & consider the trajectory.
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Even M-L parties are so afraid of building the infrastructure of resistance, that they go for elections instead. Today, focusing on elections is a mistake, because there is no infrastructure to do anything but that, and because the masses are crying out for an alternative. 4/5
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The answer to this problem from many anarchists is to defend against the influence of disruptive socialist organizations by red-baiting them, and in so doing make common cause with liberal forces, only to then be pushed aside by the liberals.
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So they lead an advance, and then they see it diverted or recaptured by larger and more organized forces, or taken apart via a death by a thousand cuts from liberals. Rinse and repeat.
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But the rupture itself is a victory. A breakdown in normalcy, in labor discipline is a basis for rebellion against the status quo. When the masses take that opportunity and aim their rage at institutions of state violence that *is* a victory, regardless of outcome.
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The one spot where DSA may claim to have a nat'l profile, beyond merely being the Nation's Largest Socialist Organization™ is w/ its prominent political office holders. But these politicians are local representatives and any relationship with DSA is likewise local.
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How a rebellion plays out educates the masses on who their friends & enemies are, while also showing them their own strength. And in breaking with the status quo, they give the ruling class a vision of what could be, which terrifies them. They lose control when we lose our fear.
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Now consider how much shakier their rule is today: overstretched with imperialist wars, fighting off hegemonic competitors, historically low legitimacy, inflation, an ongoing but unacknowledged pandemic, an H5N1 pandemic in the wings, a financial house of cards ready to fall,
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For example, we learn of the evils of imperialism & come to the position of solidarity. But this solidarity is pointed into elections, academic debate, and symbolic protest. Thought isn't given to what's required to reduce the ability of the US to project violence abroad. 3/
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Now look at the Palestine movement & how it has shifted the center of gravity outside the framework of counterinsurgents and co-opters. Imagine one of these triggers sets off, creating an opportunity for rebellion, and imagine what we would do with it today in comparison to 2020.
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@humanbeingawk
It's all labor discipline. They separate us from subsistence, to force us to work for pay. They separate us from housing to make us pay them for it. They organize police and prisons to deal with anyone who steps out of line.
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In effect, ppl in closest proximity to the enemy are told they must act *only* as cheerleaders for resistance movements catching US bombs. This removes from the agenda the question of accumulating the critical mass of forces needed to make a rupture within the United States. 4/
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What is shocking is the degree to which avowed revolutionaries clearly don’t believe that it’s possible. This can be seen in what they say and how they set the agenda, in their actions and inactions. 2/
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To the way a political moment proceeds: w/ a simple arithmetic of demands & concessions. A political rupture doesn't exist because "what are its demands." Or it "fails" because it didn't achieve its demands. These are ruling class talking points, pushing you into their framework.
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How can you see this & hear to the words of zionists assaulting protesters & not see fascism is already here? Note how fascists motivated by zionism sound like the fascists motivated by star spangled settler-colonialism. Zionists do what most USian reactionaries fantasize about.
This kind of violence—like the October murder of 6yo Wadea Al Fayoume—might seem beyond explanation, but it doesn’t just spring out of the ground. Everyone who’s stoked and spread anti-Palestinian/Islamophobic bigotry is responsible. Three years old!! This is the world they want.
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This is the perspective. Lenin was created by the revolutionary masses, not just in his immediate era, but across generations. The masses create their leaders and travel with them in a dialectic of leadership and led. Higher levels of mass consciousness create better leaders.
lenin was a product of one of the highest stages of class consciousness. there will be more of him, and there already are many of him in our movement. lenin vive ❤️
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The obvious move is to converge in Chicago. But if we're going to take this where it needs to go, we need something akin to a general strike. We could get there with another natural disaster (ala COVID) or if repression triggers a massive spontaneous reaction from the people.
Wondering how this uprising can sustain itself after most schools wrap up their semesters in a week or two. Going back to marches won't cut it. Occupying the campuses after they close? Pivoting to relevant off-campus locations to occupy? Something beyond occupations?
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@land2thetiller
We need to see a merger of tactics between mass protests and direct actions, and we need better targeting. The closest to this that I've sen were the short duration port closures in Oakland, Sea-Tac, and Vancouver. We need that, but with thousands and spanning days or weeks.
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On demands, events are moving so quickly, I don't know where I saw it. But one of the encampments is demanding a declaration from the University that a genocide is happening and a condemnation of it. That is a subtle but very powerful demand. 1/6
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Maybe base could be oppressed nations & refugees trapped in the US, w/ their working class and reserve labor elements as the core of the core. More will arrive as climate refugees. As empire falls, benefits to settlers will thin, a substantial minority may join the revolution 1/2
To say more on this, it’s plausible that there is a way for both a fighting & mass orgs to effectively function in the core, but there are ?s that need answering
Who is your mass base? If you say the workers you’re cooked
Where are your rear areas/zones of popular support?
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constant natural disasters related to climate change, relatedly an inevitably growing refugee crisis, fascist movements across the West on the brink of open state power, etc. There are many triggers for a break in labor discipline, an opening for another rebellion.
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It's a problem that much of what counts as "community" in the US is focused around entertainment, intoxication, and consumption. In contrast, a revolutionary movement focuses community around political ideas and material support, opening and using spaces for those purposes.
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This government is not legitimate, none of it. The people deciding when you work and how, then forcing you to pay them for the right to live, are equally illegitimate. The ties of love & support that sustain you, and the solidarity forged in the coming storm are all that matter.
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🧵 But we don't all move at the same time. Some classes, leaders, and militants are at the front line. It's how people move en masse. The mistake is thinking a vanguard only exists as an M-L party, or a party at all, but it's not something you are, it's something you do.
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This is a piece that I wrote. Thank you
@red_clarion
for publishing it and helping edit it. I hope others find it helpful.
"It is possible to win and it is possible to win in our lifetime."
Lead the masses into direct, forceful confrontation with the people and institutions prosecuting this genocide.
Read the latest struggle article by Liath,
@Fxp02
on twitter.
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In the US, the legal struggle is all, inevitably pulling the movement into elections. There is no underground. We're never given an efficacious alternative path of struggle. The non-electoral factions are also without the infrastructure of resistance and aren't building it. 3/5
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At times, engaging in electoral politics made tactical sense. At other times abstaining was the better path. But it was always abstaining in favor of another field of development and struggle (the underground). 2/5
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Absolutely, you can't allow them to dominate discussion, or maneuver into a leadership position. You can't allow them to disrupt more militant voices from holding the microphone and a leadership role. The worst are opportunists and will use sophistry and rumor to outmaneuver you.
when i say you will have to outmanuever the liberals, i mean it, b/c yes, the liberals are dirty as fuck. behind all the concern trolling are ppl trying to maintain law & order / the status quo at the expense of liberatory struggle.
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🧵Who's in charge b/n the US and israel is the wrong question. There's only imperialism & the US leads that imperialism. [z]ionism is an ideology & political system expressing & justifying the hardest core of that system, realized in the settler-colony of israel. 1/22
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These two elements (mass networks and armed struggle) consciously tied together with appropriate methods and tactics to advance them, are the key differentiators between actual revolutionary projects and false promises, between symbolically upholding revolution and meaning it.
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Chief among these realizations is that organized force is necessary to overthrow the ruling class in the US. If that’s the case, a revolutionary movement must build the infrastructure, both ideological and material, needed to project that force and to survive the reaction. 15/
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Alongside this is an allergic reaction in the Palestine mobilizations to anything tactically beyond marching in circles. Even spray painting the buildings weapons manufacturers is a bridge too far. This all demonstrates an ultimately defeatist orientation. 13/
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The second is the experience of the ANC and uMkhonto we Sizwe. Arising out of a popular mass movement, they had developed the most critical element of infrastructure needed to sustain operations and protect their networks before they entered the armed struggle. 22/
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Dealing with weapons is mostly irrelevant until you have these networks developed. The problem is that no one is building these networks with the conscious aim of overthrowing the US ruling class using force, although all serious revolutionaries agree that’s what it takes. 18/
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Great thread. I would add one of the most important strategic accomplishments was the demonstration that every foot of land controlled by the occupation is subject to effective attacks, and they can't stop it. They can only mitigate it with air defense, at tremendous cost. 1/2
[THREAD:🧵🇮🇷 THE IRANIAN RETALIATION]:
The Iranian retaliation to the occupation's flagrant, illegal aggression against the Iranian consulate in Damascus came last night, and it was resoundingly successful across multiple layers, not only militarily but also strategically. ▶
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At some point in the distant future they will accumulate a majority in a government still shared with the oppressors. That’s “democracy” after all. The possibility of actually winning the world we want is so thoroughly dismissed that it goes without saying. 8/
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The only correct stance on this question, if the aim is to advance Palestinian liberation, is to support the Axis of Resistance uncritically. Keep whatever criticisms you might have for a day when the Resistance isn't the only force fighting effectively against genocide.
Socialists must work to stop any expression of antisemitism in the movement as well as any slogans aligning ourselves with conservative, antisemitic forces like Hamas, the Houthi or the Iranian state. These self-marginalizing tactics are a dead end.
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It also takes tactical escalations off the table, such as coordinated direct action or sabotage. 5/
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The end goal is an above ground network that distributes information and resources, with an underground (the capacity for self defense, hiding and being hidden) embedded within it. The balancing of these elements changes as political conditions change. 17/
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This doesn’t mean that we immediately run off to target practice. The infrastructure of resistance is developed out of a dialectical interplay of ideology and materiality, legal modes of struggle with illegal forms. 16/
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They are playing a vanguard role in a global struggle. But there is another truth: 2) that for Palestine to be free the United States and its entire system of global imperialism must fall. We in the United States have a critical role to play in making that happen.
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What of build-the-party? This is the most difficult to parse because if our aim is to seize state power, then we must have a revolutionary party. The question is whether any of the party building projects in the United States take seriously the possibility that we can win. 9/
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The weapons come from the US. The funding comes from the US. Many of the soldiers and "civilian" settlers come from the US. The media and diplomatic cover comes from the US. The broader zionist alliance, including European states, is directed by the US.
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Difference b/n now and the '60s: Gone from ~90% white to ~60%. Much larger percentage of non-euro immigrants. The welfare state is gone. The industrial plant was exported to China. The empire overseas is falling apart. And rapid ecological collapse is accelerating everything. 2/2
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@deeLteeS
@b_rye_crush
One book that ties this altogether is the Future of Maoism by Samir Amin (trans by Finkelstein). Can't say whether or not I'd recommend it, since I haven't finished it yet.
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The DSA orientation of electing minority legislative delegations and losing presidential elections presumes the only path forward is to gain a foothold in government from which to mitigate harms. 7/
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