![[Not the Onion] In Defense of Punching Left](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/2f24416b-15c8-4492-8885-92c99b08d536.png){kind=link}
I’m a liberal. I’ve always been a liberal…
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“Don’t punch left” is the core tenet of Solidarity, a new book by Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix. In a laudatory interview with the Washington Post, Hunt-Hendrix said the book was aimed not only at progressives in general but also specifically at liberals who criticize the left, naming me and newsletter author Matthew Yglesias as “falling into the right’s divide-and-conquer strategy.”
I read a couple more paragraphs and I had to stop. I forgot what a terrible writer he is. The article is like reading a textbook that lectures you.
I disagree, there are tactical coalitions that can be built predicated on cooperating over specific issues - such as avoiding nuclear war or ending the Palestinian genocide, etc. - with the understanding that tactical cooperation does not equal comraderyship with those in your coalition.
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Disagree. Liberals will always betray the left in favour of capital.
No shit, that doesn’t mean there aren’t times where interests align and we can collaborate - preferably on our terms and with our lead - on key issues.
I don’t see any of you lot complaining about how the Communists coalitioned with the progressive libs in the anti-war movement against the Vietnam War or saying the Communists should’ve gone their own way during the Civil rights movement
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Context is such an underutilized concept among us who tout ourselves as scientific socialists
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Even “tactical cooperation” can get you long-knifed with those snakes