I haven’t talked much about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine since it occurred, mostly just sharing Ukrainian voices and chastising a now former friend for calling for a NATO enforced no fly zone (e.g. shooting down a nuclear power’s planes). There’s something grotesque about the way slaughter can be turned into posturing discourse among the comfortable...

It’s about 6 months old, but I thought this essay by William Gillis was pretty good. Also particularly relevant to a lot of the discourse that happens in the lemmyverse.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
    81·
    14 days ago

    There are many such people deeply wedded to the old “one big coalition to destroy the one big enemy” way of thinking, and the Ukraine war has shaken them out. They cannot believe that many of us could resist NATO in the streets of Chicago and then come home and fight against the “national-anarchists” and tankies in our local scenes who likewise oppose NATO. This is, to them, not consistency in anti-authoritarian principles but inconsistency in alliances.

    Very insightful

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      14 days ago

      I’ve not read the article yet, but just this makes me think of “left unity” and who it is who is always pushing for it, and at whose expense.

      Prioritising (and demanding others also prioritise) alliances above morals is an act of authority preserving itself.