Civil rights defenders are there to implement Leninism? What? This probably sounded great in the 80's, but now it just sounds like more disinformation.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/12/17/18145075/russia-fa...
Anything that divides, causes upset, or is distracting is going to be a good propaganda target, regardless of whether the underlying cause is good or bad.
Yeah, that’s the real issue. If we can find a way to be neighborly (literally and figuratively) with those who have opinions (not actions) we abhor we might get somewhere.
But, all somebody has to do is say some opinion threatens their life and that plan is out the window.
Americans like to use “marxist” as a slur and to use it out of context to attack political enemies but there is no shortage of actual Marxist who label themselves as such, e.g this professor, found randomly by my Googling for 30sec: https://blog.apaonline.org/2020/06/17/black-lives-matter-as-...
Most people have no idea that they’re regurgitating Marxist ideology when they repeat the phrases and arguments they hear, and of course would never identify as such - but there’s no sense in which making this observation is misinformation.
Personally I lament the fact that people across the political spectrum are digging ideological holes for themselves instead of focusing on how we can all help each other.
The communists manifesto says
"Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and Proletariat."
This grand narrative and ideology spoken with objective certainty with regards to binary oppositions, is the complete opposite of postmodernism.
Milton Friedman's works in a similar vein although on the other side are the opposite of postmodernism as well.
To revisit the original point, civil rights is deeply intertwined with radical left-wing and Marxist politics, for better or worse. Personally I think it’s a shame because civil rights should be for everyone, it is bigger than any political persuasion.
The best thing we can do is de-politicise these movements, the entire political spectrum has become so toxic and divisive.
Not the 80s but 60s. Nixon blamed the civil rights movement of the 60s on the soviets/communism. Nixon's ability to pin the civil rights movement on the soviets/communism made him extremely popular. People forget how popular Nixon was.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/7/...
This guy is all over youtube/social media, but he's just stating standard anti-communist propaganda we've had since mccarthy in the 40s/50s.
Think about this war. Everyone is condemning Russia, making statements supporting Ukraine, applying all kind of sanctions against Russia.
Why did not governments do the same when US invade Iraq or Afghanistan?
Obviously, the USSR is gone but it did manage to demoralize enough people to shill for Russian foreign policy despite Putin being much more fascist adjacent, and enjoying close support from the bellicose Orthodox patriarchs who rail against western politics instead of sticking to droning on about God.
My leftists are British and Canadian however. YMMV based on geography.
But we also acknowledge that the Russian government, oligarchic autocracy as it is, is right to say that endless NATO expansion, for which read extended US hegemony, is not the security structure Europe needs. The chance was missed to abolish NATO when the Warsaw Pact went out of business more than thirty years ago; instead we are left with the consequences of broken US promises not to extend the alliance eastwards.
So Stop the War aims to provide the opposition that the Labour front bench seemingly won’t. The Tories have taken the lead internationally in talking up the crisis, announcing imminent coups, false-flag incidents or invasions almost every day, to the point where even the government in Kiev has asked them to tone it down a bit.
More substantively, they have sent fresh arms to Ukraine and deployed more British forces into Eastern Europe—all the very things which Russia has said it finds most menacing. All this pointless provocation seems to speak of a government which would actually quite like a war to break out, for strategic and doubtless domestic political reasons, particularly since it will not involve any British forces fighting.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/02/keir-starmer-guardian-stop-...