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When will the left drop the sectarian BS and work together? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by MayoPete@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I am at risk of being sent to a camp because my brain works a little differently than others. Being on the left isn't going to help.

Our friends and colleagues are being deported and jailed just for having anti-Zionist opinions and daring to express them.

Right wing violence is Surging. Our Trans comrades are in increasing danger. We are all having our rights stripped away...

...and the largest new thread is another fucking anarchist beefing with MLs.

What is it going to take for us to work together and fight a common enemy? Anarchists are not my enemies. I don't care which series of 200 year old books you have or have not read, and you shouldn't care either.

You know who ARE my enemies? Those old white people who go to Republican party meetings and plot to deport my neighbors and throw me into a "wellness" camp because they're too much of cowards to handle anyone different than them.

I'm sick of all this endless infighting! Can we all just, IDK, organize to shut down some local GOP meetings, or create some Socialism 101 agit prop, or do anything productive? Or is this what the left does, just endlessly bicker over books online?

Get outside, touch grass, and accept the person next to you no matter what kind of left they claim to be. We're not big enough for this and I really need you to organize because I like living outside of a DHS cage.

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[–] trinicorn@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

yeah the best reaction to unhinged "anti-tankie-aktion" types IMO is to just be normal and put in the work, IMO. Be willing to work in good faith with basically anyone who isn't actively sabotaging and undermining you (at least in public-facing work, obviously opsec becomes a concern at some point). The majority of regular-ass people, anarchist or otherwise, will see that you put in the work and that the committed "anti-authoritarians" are more interested in screeds against you than finding common ground or achieving anything.

I guess that's the belden method basically lol

I don't care what people say I care what people do. If they show up when they say they will, if they bring good ideas and move discussions forward rather than derail, if they put in the work, then we can work together. If they don't, we can't, regardless of tendency. I'm not going to work with an ML that only talks about half-understood theory and wont apply it to reality or feels they are above the dirty work/busy work, but same goes for anarchists or anyone else.

This is all in the context of nascent imperial core organizing of course, not like, russia 1915 or whatever.