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This is the take that bothers me the most, as if the most aggressive and outspoken faction of any group exist only to drag the more respectable members down by association.
I would be one thing to say, "I don't understand that group", but it's quite remarkable to say, "I understand that group so little that they must be the opposition in disguise"
Eh, only a small minority of hexbears are fascists, but almost all hexbears tolerate fascists. All the fascists have to do is walk in and say "NATO is bad, Ukraine is bad, libs are bad, vote for Trump because he is a big lovable goofball" and the other hexbears are like aight let's own the shitlibs.
A huge portion of hexbear users are trans or otherwise LGBTQ. Ask them what they think fascists want to do to them. Fascists also massacre socialists — often with American support, as in Indonesia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, El Salvador, Argentina, and Bolivia. Ask them how they feel about this. Hexbear users do hold some complex views on topics like China and Russia, but they have reasons for this and would tell you if you asked. You should consider talking to them, instead of making things up about them in an authoritative tone of voice. You'll be hard-pressed to find a hexbear user who doesn't want Trump dead or in jail.
It's blatant though? They use right wing talking points for everything and it's all dog whistles?
"Geopolitics exists as a binary, and on some issues they agree with the opposite binary from me".
Worse actually, "they might agree with me on one issue but they disagree on another, so they must be pretending to agree with me to begin with"
On hexbear, geopolitics exists as whatever hexbears feel like owns the shitlibs the most at that particular moment.
Sometimes, Russia is just months away from a well planned and strategized victory, against an evil Nazi Ukraine.
Other times, everything is a mastermind NATO move that's all benefiting NATO, and Ukraine is just the meatgrinder victim.
What feels most alt-right about hexbear isn't any particular position, but the fact that there's no particular position. No logical cohesiveness, no rooted in solid reality. It's superfluid ever changing dream reality.
I think the parallel with right wing extremism is because they're both pushed by the CCP. They use a divide and conquer approach via LLMs on social media to weaken political opponents.
is Cuba a far-right regime? They just passed the most comprehensive pro-LGBTQ legislation package on the planet.
Go ask them for their opinions about Russia and China. You'll get unanimous agreement that Putin is a homophobic capitalist reactionary and Russia is not a socialist or left-wing state. For China, you'll get disagreements, but most of the takes will be pretty nuanced either way. Some believe Deng's reforms were necessary to avoid economic strangulation, others are deeply suspicious of the direction China is headed.
This is just not true lol
Just a point of clarification: you think the USSR was a far-right regime?
They didn't say the USSR, they said modern day China and Russia
See, this is exactly what I mean by "I understand them so little that they must be the opposition in disguise"
If you tried at all, youd understand that they're position on "modern day Russia and China" is based on the idea of critical support. They evaluate policy decisions against "does this bring the working class closer to solidarity or not".
I.e. on the Ukraine war, their position is basically "U.S. Involvement in any war is a net-negative to worker solidarity in the country of question". None there support Russia's invasion, but they think Americas involvement spells the end of any socialist coalition to begin with.
But again, "I understand them so little they must be a part of the opposition". They have a different (definitively leftist) understanding of the war than you do. Doesn't make them right-wing.
Stop sucking off Winnie.
Lol
When it comes to Russia bombing their cities and raping their women and children, is that positively or negatively influencing working class solidarity?
Negatively.
When it comes to supplying lethal aid to Ukraine to continue the war, though, they'd also say negatively.
For the record I don't agree, but that is their position and I understand it.
Yeah, well when Hexbear hears that wives and daughters are being raped and says "giving Ukrainians weapons to help them defend their families from being raped is bad for worker solidarity", it makes Hexbear look like a bunch of rape apologizists.
I'm not sure why people are surprised that a group largely made up of ML leftists would have a flippant attitude toward geopolitical violence.
My main point is, still, that accusing them of being "right wing" just because you don't understand their ideological stance is dumb.
Basically the only difference between ML and the alt-right is that the alt-right wants violence against "libtards", and ML's want violence against "shitlibs", while being insufferably snobby about pretending to be morally superior because they didn't use an abliest slur.
It's like you just took a fascist and put them on a liberal's moral high horse.
Nah, I think what you mean is that's the only relevant difference to you. Nevermind that MLs have a body of economic theory, if the most important detail about them is their willingness to use force then I think it's fair to suggest your prevailing ideology isn't socialism at all, it's liberalism. Not that you can't be socialist-leaning, but if the only difference you see between MLs and far-right conservatism is violence, then you seem blind to the thing that you have in common with them.
** And take notice that while ML's claim to not support Russia, they'll often jump to Russia's defense, despite Russia funding alt-right and neo-Nazi movements in America
Because to them, US/western capitalist hegemony is the global opposition to all socialist movements. That Russia is not a socialist state doesn't change their desire to see western hegemony weakened to make possible broader socialist solidarity.
I'm all for Marxism, but I haven't observed the "body of economic theory" having any relevance, except as a snooby self-righteous justification for authoritarianism and violence.
Even if you were to strip all moral interpretation away, violence and authoritarianism is unstable and ineffective. ML's in practice are fake progressives, because they don't even care for finding a stable effective solution. The progression of society is no longer the point.
From their perspective, all states (especially western liberal states) use violence to enforce their capitalistic order. "Authority" is broadly interpreted as ubiquitous, and all successful revolutions have been to some degree violent.
Not to suggest all authority and violence is the same, but to them, the liberal apprehension to utilize violence is a self-imposed handicap that not even their opposition undertakes.
Similar to leftists frustration with establishment Democrats from using their majority to enact progressive reform.
To them, the only distinction left is the economic structuring that violence is utilized on behalf of.
Again, not my personal position, but this "auth communists are the same as right wing authoritarians" is just willfully ignorant.