• AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    People are just too dogmatic about this. Palestine Action is very much doing work even though they’re technically being adventurist. The orgs doing it the rightTM way haven’t come close to the amount of material good Palestine Action has done. Is “building a working class movement” by protesting at the DNC supposed to help the Palestinians somehow?

    The way I see it is imagine if you were a socialist in 1941 Germany who, through alignment of the stars, was able to avoid conscription to the Wehrmacht but couldn’t leave Germany. What would socialist praxis look like in 1941 Germany? It would essentially be blowing up railroads and bridges, sabotaging airplanes and tanks, and committing wanton acts of violence against random Germany bureaucrats through gruesome murders. At best, you might have contacts with Allied intelligence and smuggle sensitive government documents, but every other form of socialist praxis is pretty much just every form of adventurism. I’m sure killing the German leader would’ve alienated the German working masses, but the German working masses were completely on board with exterminating Jews, Roma, and other undesirables in 1941. The whole tailist-commandist paradigm just doesn’t make sense. The path to socialism with German characteristics in 1941 is the complete destruction of the German state wrought by the Red Army and the forceful reorganization of the German state into a socialist one by the Soviet Union. The proper socialist praxis would be being an underground partisan movement based within the heart of the German war machine itself.

    2 successful assassinations

    There’s Abe. Which one is the other one? Prigo?

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      This blanquist bullshit is beneath you.

      East Germany, like the DPRK, had its founding facilitated by the Soviet Union, but was actually constructed mainly by Germans, as evidenced by their somewhat different laws. There were aspects that the SU demanded, but generally they did respect that a dictatorship of the proletariat has to be democratic. It was a bit easier to accomplish by the thorough purging of the Nazis, of course.