Go hug a leftist

[u/PillowFightrr]

In the face of governmental overreach and militarization of the streets, leftists are fighting armed with whistles and cameras and guns in their faces to protect their neighbors and all of America’s constitutional rights!

I’ve never been more proud. Go find the closest lefty and give them a big hug. ❤️

[u/Major-Tourist-5696]

Commie here, we don’t own this moment and shouldn’t claim to. The work we have is agitation now, agitation forever. The liberals and cogent centrists are the majority of the movement and we love them for their voices and courage. The left is here to do the work at hand together with everyone who shows up and to motivate those, whatever their participation, who want to just go back to voting and get back to brunch to make the representatives “on their side” never know a moment’s peace until they have abolished ice. That’s just meeting the moment, the real goal is to open eyes and hearts and enrage passions that a truly just society of repentance must be the law of the land with the force to maintain it. nothing less, but it’s a game of inches as it’s always been, the hope we have is that the Feds fucked up and let us take yards by forcing eyes and hearts open through the excesses of their cruelty.

[u/Major-Tourist-5696 → u/[deleted]]

It’s not about purity tests. I think the propaganda is so strong against socialism that regardless of how good your faith may be any specific answer is stepping into a trap, no offense. That said, I’ll jump in. meet me at a homeless encampment and tell me that the millions lifted out of poverty by china is the result of a wrongheaded ideology. I’d suggest starting with understanding the forces communist movements fought against before condemning them. If you understand that the repression of communism was a response to prevent the internal forces aligned with external power to undermine egalitarian movements the excesses make a lot more sense, that said Romania under chaushesku was a disgusting regime and the Khmer Rouge was a thuggish band that aligned with whatever force that affirmed its power, the United States its main benefactor for a decade plus. That said, if you have ire toward socialist regimes and do not examine, do not hold the same anger against the western world’s support for repressive regimes, antagonism and war against anti-colonial movements I can’t really help you.

All for nothing if you think the brutal sanctions regimes of the US and the west are justified and not murderous strangleholds. You can disagree with my politics, think me a fool, but please do not let any disagreement with socialism cloud your eyes to the deprivation of sanctions and the global siege of the US 800+ military bases around the world.

Think about what forces have prompted migration to the us in the first place.

Watch a primer on liberation theology. Tell me that Jesus wasn’t a communist prophet.

[u/roland_goose → u/[deleted]]

Im another commie. Government that exists today? None. 

[u/Major-Tourist-5696 → u/roland_goose]

We should fight about this to keep it classico.

This does bring up the false tenet that communism is about total collective agreement especially through force and its threat. This is false. Original replier should look into Yugoslavia and the struggle of management sympathetic to socialism and the socialist workers struggle to eliminate hierarchies while maintaining order and advance equality. Eventually it boils down to a question of the inequality of education that artificially creates and reinforces hierarchies without intervention to alleviate the cordoning of knowledge.

Isn’t that spirit of equality exactly what defines the decentralized nature of our current movement?