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[–] motherfucker@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

During World War I, Lenin advocated for a position called “Revolutionary Defeatism”, the idea that the working class does not benefit from sacrificing themselves for the sake of winning a bourgeois war, and that if the working class is organized, a war which is lost presents more of an opportunity for civil war to escalate into proletarian revolution than a war which is won.

I believe this is the stance of most people discussing Russia-Ukraine here, although delving into that seems like an easy way to get off topic.

I’ll second the Jakarta Method. It’s a very stark picture of what we are up against as people who believe in the abolition of money, among other things.