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screaming into the void about anti imperialism and anti fascism
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· Apr 11
The periphery has no time for binaries - Lausan
We must spend our time building transnational solidarity amongst our communities and diasporas, not engaging solely in 'online discourse.'
lausancollective.com
must-read about importance of building cross-cultural solidarity. it’s sad that some cant see this.
if you can understand ukraines fight against russian colonialism, surely you can understand Palestine’s fight and other anti colonial resistance struggles lausancollective.com/2021/periphe...
if you can understand ukraines fight against russian colonialism, surely you can understand Palestine’s fight and other anti colonial resistance struggles lausancollective.com/2021/periphe...
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Roger Waters tells Piers Morgan the Iranian police is defending shop keepers from violent thugs. A new set of people are finding out Waters is a vile idiot who always apologizes for non-Western dictatorships and deserves nothing but contempt. No one should be asking him about his political opinions.
January 17, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Roger Waters tells Piers Morgan the Iranian police is defending shop keepers from violent thugs. A new set of people are finding out Waters is a vile idiot who always apologizes for non-Western dictatorships and deserves nothing but contempt. No one should be asking him about his political opinions.
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The author copy of American Communist History has arrived, with a special issue on revisiting the free Angela Davis movement and its global impact - and in it, our paper with Selbi Durdiyeva On Collateral Damage, Selective Anti-imperialism and the Path to Liberation. It’s good to see this on paper…
January 17, 2026 at 6:29 PM
The author copy of American Communist History has arrived, with a special issue on revisiting the free Angela Davis movement and its global impact - and in it, our paper with Selbi Durdiyeva On Collateral Damage, Selective Anti-imperialism and the Path to Liberation. It’s good to see this on paper…
36/ If everything is authoritarian, then nothing can be condemned, and no victims can speak without being accused of aiding imperialism. But maybe that’s the real problem: they’re more committed to defending abstractions, hypotheticals, and theories than defending people.
January 17, 2026 at 9:26 PM
36/ If everything is authoritarian, then nothing can be condemned, and no victims can speak without being accused of aiding imperialism. But maybe that’s the real problem: they’re more committed to defending abstractions, hypotheticals, and theories than defending people.
35/ which coming from them is nothing but a rhetorical smokescreen or a way to flatten every political system on earth so that no one is allowed to point out the specific crimes of the regimes they personally romanticize.
January 17, 2026 at 9:26 PM
35/ which coming from them is nothing but a rhetorical smokescreen or a way to flatten every political system on earth so that no one is allowed to point out the specific crimes of the regimes they personally romanticize.
34/ This group often complains about anarchists, but simultaneously love throwing out the claim that “All governments are authoritarian”,
January 17, 2026 at 9:26 PM
34/ This group often complains about anarchists, but simultaneously love throwing out the claim that “All governments are authoritarian”,
33/ And it also requires rejecting the lazy relativism that these people cling to whenever their favorite “anti-imperialist” state is caught committing atrocities.
January 17, 2026 at 9:25 PM
33/ And it also requires rejecting the lazy relativism that these people cling to whenever their favorite “anti-imperialist” state is caught committing atrocities.
32/ The only serious way forward is to reject all forms of authoritarian and imperial domination, regardless of who commits them. That means condemning U.S. interventionism without becoming a cheerleader for regimes that brutalize their own populations and supporting people, not states or regimes.
January 17, 2026 at 9:25 PM
32/ The only serious way forward is to reject all forms of authoritarian and imperial domination, regardless of who commits them. That means condemning U.S. interventionism without becoming a cheerleader for regimes that brutalize their own populations and supporting people, not states or regimes.
31/ on the other, people who warn about the evils of socialism while being utterly incapable of offering any radical structural critique themselves. One side nauseates with its cosplay-revolutionary posturing. The other bores with its moral cowardice, delusions, and fixation on the status quo.
January 17, 2026 at 9:25 PM
31/ on the other, people who warn about the evils of socialism while being utterly incapable of offering any radical structural critique themselves. One side nauseates with its cosplay-revolutionary posturing. The other bores with its moral cowardice, delusions, and fixation on the status quo.
31/ On one side, you have people who pretend authoritarianism is acceptable as long as it’s anti-U.S. because in their limited experiences and self-centered narrative, nothing could possibly be worse than the regime they’re currently facing themselves;
January 17, 2026 at 9:24 PM
31/ On one side, you have people who pretend authoritarianism is acceptable as long as it’s anti-U.S. because in their limited experiences and self-centered narrative, nothing could possibly be worse than the regime they’re currently facing themselves;
30/ (Quick note: I am not a communist and soviet style communism was nothing to glorify, but this goes beyond historical record and can sometimes do the far right’s work for them when spoken about clumsily. Not all anti-communism is created equal).
January 17, 2026 at 9:24 PM
30/ (Quick note: I am not a communist and soviet style communism was nothing to glorify, but this goes beyond historical record and can sometimes do the far right’s work for them when spoken about clumsily. Not all anti-communism is created equal).
29/ It's an arrogant and inherently colonial way of thinking.
And stuck between these faux-radicals and the “centrists” who only know how to vomit Cold War clichés about socialism or still ramble about the morality of the collective west, there’s a no-man’s-land that feels impossible to stand in.
And stuck between these faux-radicals and the “centrists” who only know how to vomit Cold War clichés about socialism or still ramble about the morality of the collective west, there’s a no-man’s-land that feels impossible to stand in.
January 17, 2026 at 9:24 PM
29/ It's an arrogant and inherently colonial way of thinking.
And stuck between these faux-radicals and the “centrists” who only know how to vomit Cold War clichés about socialism or still ramble about the morality of the collective west, there’s a no-man’s-land that feels impossible to stand in.
And stuck between these faux-radicals and the “centrists” who only know how to vomit Cold War clichés about socialism or still ramble about the morality of the collective west, there’s a no-man’s-land that feels impossible to stand in.
28/ If people rise up, their uprising is dismissed. If they suffer, their suffering is minimized or denied altogether. If they resist authoritarianism, their resistance is treated as illegitimate unless approved by Western commentators who have never lived through what they’re talking about.
January 17, 2026 at 9:23 PM
28/ If people rise up, their uprising is dismissed. If they suffer, their suffering is minimized or denied altogether. If they resist authoritarianism, their resistance is treated as illegitimate unless approved by Western commentators who have never lived through what they’re talking about.
27/ They do not escape or defy U.S. hegemony at all, they just replicate it, internalize it, and project it onto the very people they claim to defend but with “revolutionary” symbolism.
In the process, they erase the actual people behind these events. They become symbolic proxies.
In the process, they erase the actual people behind these events. They become symbolic proxies.
January 17, 2026 at 9:23 PM
27/ They do not escape or defy U.S. hegemony at all, they just replicate it, internalize it, and project it onto the very people they claim to defend but with “revolutionary” symbolism.
In the process, they erase the actual people behind these events. They become symbolic proxies.
In the process, they erase the actual people behind these events. They become symbolic proxies.
26/ These commentators build their entire ideology around resisting American imperialism, yet the lens through which they view every global crisis is as American as the empire they claim to despise. Everything is reduced to its potential usefulness for U.S. discourse.
January 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM
26/ These commentators build their entire ideology around resisting American imperialism, yet the lens through which they view every global crisis is as American as the empire they claim to despise. Everything is reduced to its potential usefulness for U.S. discourse.
25/ Their allergy to dual condemnation (their hatred of the idea that two things can be bad at the same time) reveals a deeper intellectual and moral rot. It is not anti-imperialism. It is not internationalism. It is a U.S.-centric neurosis masquerading as radical politics.
January 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM
25/ Their allergy to dual condemnation (their hatred of the idea that two things can be bad at the same time) reveals a deeper intellectual and moral rot. It is not anti-imperialism. It is not internationalism. It is a U.S.-centric neurosis masquerading as radical politics.
24/ They recycle the same talking points, cite the same ridiculed academics, and frantically share each other’s braindead takes. Critical thought is replaced with tribal loyalty. Their identity hinges on mutual validation, not on engaging with the messy, contradictory reality of global struggles.
January 17, 2026 at 9:21 PM
24/ They recycle the same talking points, cite the same ridiculed academics, and frantically share each other’s braindead takes. Critical thought is replaced with tribal loyalty. Their identity hinges on mutual validation, not on engaging with the messy, contradictory reality of global struggles.
23/ This arrogance is amplified by their herd mentality. They operate in tight, self-reinforcing circles where deviation from the dominant narrative is treated as betrayal. Once one influencer declares a government “anti-imperialist and revolutionary,” the rest fall into line without question.
January 17, 2026 at 9:21 PM
23/ This arrogance is amplified by their herd mentality. They operate in tight, self-reinforcing circles where deviation from the dominant narrative is treated as betrayal. Once one influencer declares a government “anti-imperialist and revolutionary,” the rest fall into line without question.
22/ They believe they can pinpoint which voices from abroad are “authentic,” “revolutionary,” or “worth listening to,” usually by selecting whichever tokenized group or individual most conveniently aligns with their predetermined ideological narrative.
January 17, 2026 at 9:21 PM
22/ They believe they can pinpoint which voices from abroad are “authentic,” “revolutionary,” or “worth listening to,” usually by selecting whichever tokenized group or individual most conveniently aligns with their predetermined ideological narrative.
21/ They sit comfortably in North America or Western Europe, projecting fantasy frameworks onto societies they have never lived in, languages they do not speak, and histories they have not bothered to understand.
January 17, 2026 at 9:21 PM
21/ They sit comfortably in North America or Western Europe, projecting fantasy frameworks onto societies they have never lived in, languages they do not speak, and histories they have not bothered to understand.
20/ What makes this behavior even more absurd is that these commentators almost never belong to or have direct experience with the groups they are lecturing about and tokenizing for their own self-absorbed talking points.
January 17, 2026 at 9:20 PM
20/ What makes this behavior even more absurd is that these commentators almost never belong to or have direct experience with the groups they are lecturing about and tokenizing for their own self-absorbed talking points.
19/ It's particularly ironic and laughable as even the Venezuelan Communist Party has condemned the same authoritarian government that western leftists seem desperate to rehabilitate by framing Maduro as a humble bus driver and servant of the people.
January 17, 2026 at 9:19 PM
19/ It's particularly ironic and laughable as even the Venezuelan Communist Party has condemned the same authoritarian government that western leftists seem desperate to rehabilitate by framing Maduro as a humble bus driver and servant of the people.
18/ Once again, they cannot handle duality: that U.S. intervention is abhorrent and that a regime can simultaneously be abusive, incompetent, or authoritarian. Their worldview cannot tolerate even this basic level of complexity.
January 17, 2026 at 9:19 PM
18/ Once again, they cannot handle duality: that U.S. intervention is abhorrent and that a regime can simultaneously be abusive, incompetent, or authoritarian. Their worldview cannot tolerate even this basic level of complexity.
17/ They accuse them of being imperialist pawns or wealthy class traitors, as though entire communities exist solely to perform roles in U.S. domestic political narratives.
January 17, 2026 at 9:18 PM
17/ They accuse them of being imperialist pawns or wealthy class traitors, as though entire communities exist solely to perform roles in U.S. domestic political narratives.
16/ When U.S. aggression mutated into a full blown imperial invasion and kidnapping plot, these Western leftists over-corrected and now insist that any criticism of the Venezuelan government is off-limits. They ridicule Venezuelans who speak about corruption, repression, or economic collapse.
January 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM
16/ When U.S. aggression mutated into a full blown imperial invasion and kidnapping plot, these Western leftists over-corrected and now insist that any criticism of the Venezuelan government is off-limits. They ridicule Venezuelans who speak about corruption, repression, or economic collapse.
15/ They perform intellectual gymnastics to avoid admitting the obvious: resisting the U.S. does not magically transform a regime into a champion of human dignity and it doesn’t erase long track records of atrocities committed against its own. The Venezuela case exposes the same deficiencies.
January 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM
15/ They perform intellectual gymnastics to avoid admitting the obvious: resisting the U.S. does not magically transform a regime into a champion of human dignity and it doesn’t erase long track records of atrocities committed against its own. The Venezuela case exposes the same deficiencies.