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As an antiamerican Collapsionist, I've struggled to formulate an adequate response to Russia and Ukraine. My belief is that US leftists should be focusing on c
by barfbagginus 2y ago
As an antiamerican Collapsionist, I've struggled to formulate an adequate response to Russia and Ukraine.
My belief is that US leftists should be focusing on collapsing the US empire from within, leaving in a weakened state ready for queer automated communism to thrive. I have felt that focusing on foreign policy would tend to do nothing for the American Collapsionist cause, apart from distracting us from domestic sabotage we should be doing. The same liberals who speak with anti imperial vitriol against Russia are the same liberals who are not sabotaging America, and this has seemed to demand an "America first" sabotage policy for American leftists.
Thus I have asked my leftist friends to ignore the situation in Ukraine - which we have no control over in any case - and focus instead on sabotage efforts targeting US corporations, governmental organizations, and the general public.
I am less than satisfied with this stance, and feel particularly stung by the charge that I might be engaging the "anti-imperialism of idiots".
Yes, as American Collapsionists we must sabotage and collapse the American empire. But if possible, we must also help sabotage and collapse Russia, and more broadly, all states and imperial and corporate powers globally. The idea I have - work to collapse the empire you are culturally equipped to deconstruct, and let members of other empires collapse their respective empires - seems only to alienate me from any serious or effective international policy.
I write this to find other collapsionist anti imperials who have struggled with these ideas and have a more coherent and effective response. If I also antagonize accelerationists, American nationalists, and humanist anticollapsionists, I hope this nevertheless leads to constructive dialogue even with these, my supposed antagonists. Thanks for reading me.
- engcoach 2y agoWhat if the collapse simply leads to anarchy, and we relearn Hobbesian lessons? I’m also skeptical that “queer communism” would arise in the resulting melee even if order emerged from the chaos as most Americans would find that concept repulsive and resist it with deadly force.