This is an important litmus test for leftists. The zionist regime is an extention of USA/Western imperialism. It functions as a glorified military base in the middle east. The self proclaimed “only democracy in the middle east” is nothing but ground zero for a holy crusade against the “barbarians,” that is, people who defy and fight subjugation at the periphery.
I largely agree with you. But putting the word “inherently” where it doesn’t belong is what I consider odd about the post. It’s strawman to begin with. Nobody on lemmygrad argues that soldiers are immutably evil, but rather that it’s not worth much interacting positively with them. And yes, it does seems as if OP rejects morality in its entirety.
He also doesn’t even understand dialectical materialism as evidenced here: “It is not a dialectical materialists position to refuse something changing into its opposite.”
Things don’t change into their opposites. He rejects the negation of the negation. The things changed are both new and improved. While the new develops out of the old, it’s absurd to say something changes into its opposite.
But yeah I agree with you. Well, I think it was you who argued here that it’s mostly a question of rhetoric and practicality. I fail to see why we should give a fuck about US soldiers when it’s obviously better for communists to focus radicalizing other groups of people. And anyway, there was a veteran who self-immolated as a protest against the Palestinian genocide and iirc users on lemmygrad and hexbear were saying that Aaron would have been more useful for the communist cause if he had joined an org instead of doing that kind of defeatist/hopeless protesting, which makes OP’s post very strange to me.
Oh fuck! sorry. I must have mistaken you for someone else. HEY EVERYBODY! HES HERE. The one true leftist! The holy reincarnation of Marx who has never done anything to assist capitalism. He will lead us to communism by telling us who is evil and beyond redemption and who is good and worthy of our efforts.
Holy fuck the Nietzschean leftists here are extremely stupid. Everyone “moralizes” and Christianity didn’t invent morals or ethics you fucking goofs. Nobody claims that US soldiers are inherently evil. You adding that word is dishonest. We are trying to fight a war, a class war, and we cannot do so without getting angry at those who defend the status quo. Are you seriously trying to agitate people without arousing their passions? Ah! Good luck then. This revolution of yours would be the first passionless revolution, based on Pure Logic and Objective Facts. You guys aren’t going beyond good and evil. You’re just rationalizing evil.
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