I do, and I want it to be stopped. However, the US won't go away with harsh statements alone.
I do appreciate, however, the efforts China has made to help Iran and Yemen. I just want it to go harder. Palestine won't wait 50 years until the CPC goes into the intermediate state of socialism.
I understand (although don't agree) that China is simply looking for its own national interests and not worried about Palestine at all. However China has enough leverage to stop Israel any time, since it has the power to sanction or simply avoid collaboration with Israel. It choses not to do so, to prioritize its own multilateral game.
We can use bourgeois politics to mobilize people towards class struggle. Look to what Gustavo Petro has done in Colombia, it's a reformist project but it was carried out despite having a completely hostile congress, press, and supreme court. And he succeeded in approving a labor reform and resisting multiple lawfare campaigns against him.
Another example is Venezuela. Even though Chaves wasn't a Marxist they did succeed in taking power, creating a people's militia, and seizing part of the assets of Venezuelan national bourgeoisie and nationalizing the Venezuelan oil industry.
My tentative position is that working within the electoral system will only legitimize that system and delay the realization of the untenability of capitalism
Please read Lenin's left wing communism, he talks about participation in bourgeois elections. By participating we are not legitimizing bourgeois elections, they are already legitimate institution for the working people in countries where the main system is a bourgeois republic. It's a given. What we need to do in such cases is to tension the system to beyond its limits, and by doing this we organize the working class in the process.
It's different than the situation in Russia before October revolution since the Duma wasn't consolidated (the Tsar and the aristocracy held actual power) and there was already an organized proletariat under Soviets.
Yes, this cycle sucks. However, in US there's a need of a coalition of leftist parties to try to get seats in municipal, state and federal elections. There won't be an alternative to the Democrats any soon, especially if the few existing left parties keep fighting against each other for 1% of the vote.
Yes, I know elections will always be a losing game, however, the working class still sees the parliament as their representatives. Communists and leftists in general must have a voice in those.
Many self alleged anarchists in the Internet are not even part of the anarchist movement. They just pick a label because that makes them feel cool, but most of the time they are just liberals with no depth in theory (even anarchist theory). These people are also insignificant, they don't do anything other than complain in forums about other leftists (and more often than not are a bunch of NATO simps).
Regarding theory, I think there are more Marxists who have read Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin than supposed anarchists.
It's still important to have a space in Reddit. Let's remember many Lemmy (and grad) users came from Reddit. So, think in terms of yugo's funnel theory, liberals radicalize and look for radical subreddits, and when they grow their views, they come to Lemmy(grad).
Great comment.