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Left sectarian attacks on Rage Against the War Machine enabled the indictments of black communists (open.substack.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The lukewarm defense of Black Hammer, another middling pseudo-Maoist cult rife with sexual abuse, robbery of its cadre, and seemingly genuine Hitlerite sympathies is not great either. I do not understand why time and energy is being wasted here.

Man, the last time I even heard about Black Hammer, they were popping off at the mouth about 'Anne Frank is a colonizer'-flavored mess and I thought we had them sussed out from there as little more than an R. Kelly situation gone grift-political. Fully agreed about offering the swayed membership their outs, but why are we acting like the organizations as entities are somehow 'allies to the cause' is my question w/rt the blogpost.

My current take on the RAWM is basically summed up as: “great, whatever.” Allow the libertarians and the cults to pretend to be anti-imperialist and capitalize on their voice if there is political opportunity in doing so. To act like there is a genuine coalition forming…

This whole Rage Against The War Machine thing frankly reeks of kayfabe to me; and for so-called 'principled communists' to lend such a kayfabe legitimacy-- it reeks to me. This can only come back to bite us; the only winning move where Mises Caucus is concerned is not to play. So there too, I'm right there with you-- count me out. If I'm still alive by the time it happens, I'll be saying 'I told y'all so' when y'all's "new white man"(rip John Witherspoon) starts coming out with the cutlery.