Throwing your body to the meat grinder in an inter-imperialist conflict is a fucking waste. Yes, weakening the west is a good thing in and out of itself, but your life is much more valuable than to be wasted like that, there’s so much more you can do from within the west.
Ew
no modern western left wing movement has a viable theory of victory
Modern? There’s never been a successful revolution in the west, except GDR being literally forced militarily by the USSR to become socialist.
Memes in Portuguese are automatically 300% funnier
Moldova Ribbedcock
Literally fucking dying of measles to own the libs
Damn, I played a private server of Lineage 2 as a kid, memories unlocked. I was way too young to understand anything so I just farmed endlessly underlevelled mobs though.
Iirc, Lineage 2 was made F2P like a decade ago.
Final foot surgery, as in surgery performed on the mythical FINAL FOOT
But yeah, congratulations :D I hope the recovery will be smooth and swift!
Slop would be fitting too
Change in Spain will not come from the institutions, whether federal or regional. BNGa and Bildu both have quite wide popular support in Galicia and Euskal Herria, and they’re even arguably very grassroots and have a lot of basis in local democracy and activism. However, they’re fundamentally not revolutionary parties, and there’s only so much you can do through the institutions, especially as an EU member state.
I’m very hopeful for activism in regionalist parts of Spain, such as for example through GKS, but I honestly don’t believe that anything beyond mutual-aid structures and some mild policy may come from institution-oriented parties.
Damn, a BNGa enjoyer, didn’t think I’d find that in Hexbear. You’re completely right, BNGa is definitely further to the left than Podemos and Sumar, would you put it also further left than Bildu? I’m sadly a mesetario and not really in contact with Galician nationalists.
Praying for the nothing-ever-happens gang to win this time…
Your ideology sounds cute, but I made up a story about animals in which your ideology doesn’t work, CHECKMATE
I lost so much respect towards my anarchist coworker as a consequence of this. When I came in I was an uncultured leftist and I took their criticism of “authority” and “totalitarianism” seriously as if they knew what they were talking about, but after some basic reading it’s obvious that when they criticise “totalitarian” systems they do it from a place of parroting lib points against Actually Existing Socialism, not from actual study of the material conditions and the historical progress of these countries.
“Black and white, rigid thinking is when you’ve reached the same conclusions as a bunch of other people through examining evidence and discussion. And the more cohesive the opinions of your group after discussion, the more black and white is your thought. If your group doesn’t consist of incessant bickering over the smallest ideological differences, your group is a dictatorship and brainwashed”.
I honestly think that’s the thought process of many people who consider themselves anarchists (not of most actual anarchists). Mainly, “I’ve reached my own conclusions by myself and only argue with people to change THEIR mind, not to learn, and so I’m an isolated pocket of pure, unadulterated ideology”.
The historical moment sucks in Spain in that regard. It’s been less than 10 years since the Podemos fiasco, the tendency in Spain right now is towards the strengthening of a two-party + regional hinge parties congress. People were hopeful of change for the better with Podemos, but a mixture of inaction by the party, incapability of governing due to the PSOE not allowing a coalition with Podemos in the first elections in which Podemos got big votes, and fabricated campaigns of funding from Venezuela and Iraq to Podemos by the national police, the right wing higher spheres in the internal affairs ministry and the private media, essentially burned Podemos from the 3rd biggest party of the country into insignificance, and the reaction of most people has been to become apolitical and cynical.
My only hope is that this wave of disregard for institutional politics becomes a breeding ground for activism and labour movement, but the big unions like CCOO and UGT are very much not collaborating in that direction and have been very much co-opted by the PSOE and by legalism instead of activism and labor movement. Unions in Spain have effectively been turned into a way to get a lawyer and information about your current rights, than entities for the struggle for worker’s rights.
His government majority hangs on a few hinge parties, the most progressive ones being Bildu, Podemos and Sumar (arguably in that order) [edit: adding BNGa at the request of a cool comrade below who corrected me]. They haven’t even removed the Ley Mordaza (mouthgag law) from the right wing that was applied over a decade ago as a response to the 15-M protests movement.
Additionally, Spain (and hence the PSOE) has a larger maneuvering capability right now due to the economic conditions. Spain, being a deinsdustrialized and tourism-driven economy, is suffering much less from the EU lagging behind industrially compared to China and the USA, than are other countries like Germany or France. Employment numbers are at a historical high for reasons I can’t really understand (other than possibly the widespread availability of highly educated Spaniards accepting low-ish wages of 1800€/month drawing the influx of consulting and other service firms, and the growth of tourism, with around twice the Spanish population in visitors each year). This puts the government at an advantageous position, because it can claim on media that “we’re the only good™ country where line go up”
However, the growth of the right wing is inevitable, it’s a miracle that there’s not a right-wing coalition in the government. If only because people get tired of having the same party in power as things get progressively worse (rent prices hiking, stagnating wages, chronical unemployment especially of younger people…), the right wing will almost inevitably win the next elections in a coalition of PP + VOX. The only thing that prevented that from happening last elections was the right wing sabotaging its own capabilities of coalition with regionalist parties of Catalunya/Galicia/Euskal Herria, due to calling them all essentially state-breaking terrorists.
The left was not able to stop that
There is no left willing to stop that. Possibly Bildu and Podemos will reject the policy (without pulling out of the government “coalition”), but even Esquerra Republicana supports the war budgets, with congress members such as the well-known Gabriel Rufián saying shit like “Leftism also means order and security”. It’si disgusting being European right now, who needs fascists when you have socdems.
unconfirmed eyewitness testimony
Unconfirmed anonymous* eyewitness testimony
And the only revolutionary struggle is inter-imperialist overt military conflict? Hell no. If you wanna help the revolution, work your ass off and send money to Cuba or Palestine instead of throwing your body to the meat grinder.