Sure. Maybe I picked the wrong example since this is a soldier, but I’ve seen this sentiment commonly applied to all Israeli society. And where do you draw the line? Most Americans end up supporting the mass slaughter of foreigners until they start seeing those sad little coffins with their sad little flags on the news, or until decades later when everyone has accepted that it was horrific and indefensible, and everyone pretends that they opposed it from the beginning.

And when push comes to shove and Americans have to choose between a world of equally distributed wealth where they have to do the real, unpleasant work that makes society possible (instead of four hours of meetings and four hours of emails), and one where a Fascist vanguard kills anyone that tries to change the status quo, I have absolutely zero doubt which choice they’ll make.

It ties into another subject I refuse to shut up about: Left-Communism, “Orthodox Marxism”, Euro-Communism, and every other strain of anti-revolutionary, do-nothing jerkoff “Marxist” thought comes out of Europe. Is this because European propaganda is just so superior (no doubt due to their superior European genetics and civilization), or is it because the entire world is enslaved for the benefit of Europeans, and thus even the “Communists” Europe produces are, for the most part, parasites? I think the answer is obvious enough.

The primary contradiction in the world is between the European and everyone else on Earth, not between the European worker and his European boss fighting over the spoils of global exploitation.

As people are accurately diagnosing Israeli society as demonic and without redemptive qualities, and as they rightly wish harm on this settler, I can’t help but think about how mad people here got when I said I don’t care about the suffering of Americans.

Can someone explain the difference? Because it seems to me it’s the classic cop/soldier distinction you see among RadLibs: they can imagine themselves being harassed and harmed by cops (in which case it’s ACAB city) but are far more likely to be or know soldiers than suffer harm at their hands, so suddenly a situation that merited slogans and denunciations seconds ago deserves nuance.

People–again, rightly–point out that there are no innocent Israelis and that settlers are inherently combatants. Why doesn’t this apply to the far more more murderous United States? Its foundation is even more explicitly genocidal, it has killed orders of magnitude more people, and all of its atrocities receive widespread support.

So why is the treatment so different? Is it because Israelis are faceless nobodies on the other side of the Earth, and you and everyone you care about are Americans? Is it because your state has been unimaginably more successful at its campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing, so unlike Israelis, you don’t have to think about the fact that you’re a settler and thus create ideological justifications for your existence?

To be clear: I’m not saying that people here don’t hate the US. People here hate the US, but they hate Israelis. Why are Israelis painted as monsters complicit in their government’s actions while Americans are poor little victims whomst bear no responsibility for the most murderous state on Earth?

If this doesn’t apply to you: great! The next time someone tearfully says that no one should listen to me because I’m a big old meanie head toward history’s most perfect angels, Americans, please join me in thinking about how much everyone hates Israelis both individually and collectively (and again: they should! This is not a defense of Israelis) and roll your eyes.

“Ten degrees to the left of center in the best of times; ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.”

Edit: to be clear, I’m talking about Euro-Americans. The material base of American society is the exploitation of everyone on Earth for the benefit of Europeans. The bottom strata of American society are almost entirely racialized, and non-white people generally experience drastically different circumstances than the parasitic European majority.

Why would you call the news begging for help?

Least Fascist Zionist

They enjoy killing civilians because they view all Palestinians as subhumans and threats.

Why? Optimism when everything is shit and has 0 signs of getting better is just religion.

Undialectical. No condition is permanent.

Ideological superstructure flows out of the material base. Settler colonialism forges a genocidal people everywhere it’s implemented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9vFzN5MbFk

every white person who isnt a comrade

Nah listen I appreciate the charity but I’m willing to take one for the team. Just unleash the FOXDIE virus on white people, it’ll be worth it.

Big fan of your work, my favorite part is when you say that Communism is impossible but that you still expect the abolition of class. Enormous brain.

Jesus Christ how fucking tedious. I involuntarily let out an “oh my God” toward the end.

Can you cite a passage? The only relevant thing I can see is talking about maintaining relations with post-coup Chile.

You are not the real world, you are a walled garden of privilege.

Waaaaahhhhh only 99% of everything I interact with is geared toward my Liberal Anti-Communist sensibilities waaaaahhhhh waaaaahhhhh why can’t it be 100%

Stuff like this is, I think, a good demonstration of the thesis that Roderic Day advances: Westerners aren’t anti-Communists because of the dastardly propaganda, it’s the other way around: they believe this plainly absurd shit because they want to.

They are good little Roman citizens, always ready to believe that Rome is killing bad guys because that conquest is how they got their material abundance in the first place.

You’re telling me this rich person who doesn’t actually work for a living and has no personal stakes in anything believes self-serving bullshit?

Illustrative of his ideology that he thinks Israel’s behavior is aberrant and undesired by the US.

It must never be forgotten that the Hungarian Revolution was successful as no other revolution in history was successful. The totalitarian state was not merely defeated. It was totally destroyed and the counter-revolution crushed. It is the totality of the success which enabled the workers to do so much before the revolu­tion was robbed of its victory by Russian tanks from outside.

Every time I read something from libcom it’s an absolute blast.

Still achieving that effect to some extent. They really hit a home run on their first try.