>>2836847I'm also convinced it's a psyop that started at the end of the 2010s when some people on the left (including /leftypol/) advocated returning to Marxism and the basics of class struggle, instead of endless virtue signalling about woke intersectionality (post-Occupy psyop).
When you think about it, what do these debates have achieved?
Absolutely nothing.
When the strongest anti-imperialist soldier on Twitter with a Stalin PFP proudly proclaim "Uncritical support for Russia, Cuba, Iran, Turkmenistan and the DPRK", how does it help these countries? It simply doesn't matter in the slightest, it makes zero material difference.
All this talk reduces these people to
passive spectators.
They probably don't feel the need to do activism in their own country, because they feel like they have the correct opinions on geopolitical events, and it's sufficient to feel good about themselves.
A side-effect of being a spectator is that, to feel important, they need to come up with the edgiest takes possible.
Here is what the main left party in my country says about Iran and Russia:
>Iranian workers are oppressed by the Iranian theocracy and were right to revolt, but the US bombing Iran and kidnapping Maduro is absolutely unacceptable, it's not about "democratic regime change" but resources, if the Iranians or Venezuelans want regime change, it's their own matter and not the matter of foreign powers >Russia were wrong to start an invasion of Ukraine, but NATO shouldn't have expanded to Eastern Europe after the end of the Cold War and fuel tensions, and in fact NATO should have disbanded in 1991 since the Warsaw Pact was over.You might say it's naive perhaps, but these are perfectly reasonable geopolitical stances for a party that has slim but significant chances to win the next elections, since they would have to deal with geopolitics
for real.
Meanwhile all the most extreme "death to AmeriKKKa, long live to [insert edgy leader]" takes make us look like fools. And the problem is that, even if you pretend to be retarded as a joke, the more you do it, the more you become actually retarded and surround yourself with actual retards.
On top of that, I doubt most people here would actually enjoy to live in Russia or Iran, especially considering half of you are gay or trans. You would get beaten up by Putinists daily for being atheist communist faggots.
But perhaps, the most important point is that, once multipolarity happens, what happens for us, gay communists?
Multipolarity is already happening: some countries are starting to buy and sell oil with renminbi, Iran is humiliating the US right now, and Ukraine didn't win the war after four years (but neither did Russia).
What are you multipolaristas going to do now?
I'm pretty much afraid the answer will be as usual:
sit and watch like docile spectators.
I see that a lot of multipolaristas are saying, "it's the beginning but it's not yet real multipolarity", and I think they are afraid to look at the reality of things: no communist party is ready to take power anywhere, on the contrary, multipolarity exacerbates nationalist rhetoric and conflicts between capitalist nation-states, and the US is becoming more and more unashamedly aggressive as it loses its global power.
tl;dr: Campism is just a rhetorical game for overeducated middle-class radicals alienated from working class organizations.