Tbf, here in Germany for example there’s still a sizable communist movement calling Hamas anti-colonialist freedom fighters. Maybe most of them aren’t seeing them as communists, but they definitely see them as left-wing and deserving of left-wing support
Correct, but there is a sizeable portion of terminally online leftists who do believe that opposing all western interests, current and historic, is a necessary condition of leftist ideology. They are called campists and they are all over Lemmy.
Well “anti colonialist” and “freedom fighter” do not a communist make.
Though I can see how a connection could be made that the force fighting an apartheid settler colonial power aligns with anti apartheid anti colonial sentiment.
But critical support is kind of a nuanced thing that usually isn’t understood well or interpreted charitably. It often follows the same logic of picking the lesser of two evils as a winning electoral strategy. Which means people end up supporting objectively bad things because they see it defeating an objectively worse thing.
This is also the prevailing opinion of tankies on Lemmy. I’ve seen more than a handful of people on here saying they want to “write in Hamas” for the US election.
Tbf, here in Germany for example there’s still a sizable communist movement calling Hamas anti-colonialist freedom fighters. Maybe most of them aren’t seeing them as communists, but they definitely see them as left-wing and deserving of left-wing support
being anti-colonial is not the same thing as being left wing? nor is being left wing a pre-requisite of receiving left wing support.
Correct, but there is a sizeable portion of terminally online leftists who do believe that opposing all western interests, current and historic, is a necessary condition of leftist ideology. They are called campists and they are all over Lemmy.
Well “anti colonialist” and “freedom fighter” do not a communist make.
Though I can see how a connection could be made that the force fighting an apartheid settler colonial power aligns with anti apartheid anti colonial sentiment.
But critical support is kind of a nuanced thing that usually isn’t understood well or interpreted charitably. It often follows the same logic of picking the lesser of two evils as a winning electoral strategy. Which means people end up supporting objectively bad things because they see it defeating an objectively worse thing.
This is also the prevailing opinion of tankies on Lemmy. I’ve seen more than a handful of people on here saying they want to “write in Hamas” for the US election.