peripateticpeasant

I am trying to find a different piece of work of Lenin that talks about the role the masses in not commenting the national affairs of countries that their nation-state is in imperialist war with but I can’t find it.

Regardless any Global South radical knows this, whether through explicit radical theory or through culture, of not interfering in other people’s affairs especially when you lack the knowledge or ability to affect it.

But in the meanwhile I found this which I find perfect for this context in Opportunism, and the Collapse of the Second International:

Kautsky wants to represent the golden mean, and to reconcile the “two extremes” which “have nothing in common”! Today (sixteen months after the outbreak of war) he admits that the masses are revolutionary. Condemning in the same breath revolutionary action, which he calls “Abenteuer” “in den Strassen”[4] (p. 272), Kautsky wants to “reconcile” the revolutionary masses with the opportunist leaders, who have “nothing in common” with them—but on what basis ? On the basis of mere words! On the basis of “Left-wing” words of the “Left-wing” minority in the Reichtag! Let the minority, like Kautsky, condemn revolutionary action, calling it adventurism, but it must feed the masses with Left-wing words. Then there will be peace in the Party, unity with the Südekums, Legiens, Davids, and Monitors!

I am 100% convinced that for the majority of the Hexbear user base, that if they started living in a Global South country they’d turn to a NATO-supporting liberal so fast. Simple class interests.

Suddenly all this posturing of being part of a “radical” political minority falls flat.

I built my algorithm well. I get reels from across the world.

I got random West African News, next to gay Pakistani thirst traps, to South Indian memes, to random theory posting from commie accounts, to your usual in trend and inevitable USA and Western memes, to Caribbean cooking, to Chinese language learning.

That doesn’t even cover half of it and I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Life’s been good lately. Not everything’s perfect - far from it.

But I like how things are going right now. There’s progress and can’t expect much more than that.