Speaking as someone who has been part of highly ineffective ML parties and orgs in the past and became frustrated/burnt out with them, go where you are most effective in your area, ML or not. There are non-ML parties that do effective work and you can still spread class consciousness within them.

As sinophobic and geopolitically ignorant as the average American is, imo most Americans would probably not support a direct military engagement against China given the immense failures of US intervention in the Arab world. Proxy war? Ukraine has shown that Americans will go along with a conflict that involves another country’s soldiers fighting in place of American soldiers, but I think most would still be against a war with China using American troops.

Plus, neoliberalism has wreaked havoc on the US’s ability to mobilize the country for a great power conflict. The government is the most unpopular it has ever been. A reorienting of the economy a la the New Deal is unlikely, and imposing a draft would likely lead to immense civil conflict.

Anything could happen obviously. A truly visceral false flag attack could alter public support. But to me, it feels like the US is more likely to escalate the existing war against its own populace while goading other countries to fight its battles internationally.

The tragedy with the Crimean Tartars was that they were deported based on heritage, even those who were loyal red army combatants. I’m not saying the situations are a perfect equivalence, but it’s the same rationale the US used to intern Japanese-Americans, which communists have always rightfully criticized. Whether it was necessary or not is debatable but it always troubles me whenever I encounter blanket apologism for the action or communists embracing the reasoning.

In addition, those deported were not allowed to resettle in Crimea for 2 decades after the war. We can still support the legacy of the USSR while still acknowledging that this is a blemish.

I barely had patience for liberals at the start of the conflict. There’s a certain amount of grace to give when a major event happens and people are trying to piece out the background after not paying attention for years. Now? That doesn’t exist anymore. Liberals are simply choosing to remain ignorant at this point when it comes to Russia-Ukraine.

This book is such a game changer for leftist education in the West.

Liberals: “Nuh uh”

These stupid crackers think we’re all Chinese anyway. Even if they made the distinction mentally they wouldn’t actually conduct their hate crimes with any accuracy.

COVID hate crimes targeted Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese, etc.

The dialogue in this next US election is gonna be really ugly for Asian-Americans.

David Chang has a fantastic episode on Chinese food. I think it’s Ugly Delicious?

You can find plenty of communist criticisms of Stalin. They appear on this forum from time to time.

Maybe try engaging earnestly and give specifics. You may get even more context from us that might change your view. Or, hell, we might even agree with you. Stalin did good things. He also did some shit things.

Instead, you’re relying off of the Stalin boogeyman myth that even the US government has admitted is false.

He’s the smug white-guy replacement for Christopher Hitchens, except dumber.

The US and Britain never formally embraced the label of fascism, seeing as fascism as an ideology grew out of post-WWI conditions. However, it’s clear that the US and other colonial powers operated as proto-fascists models. And since fascism’s birth as an ideology, these liberal powers have aided and abet fascist movements, both domestically and abroad, in order to preserve bourgeois class rule. They continue to do so. And as the world heads towards economic crisis, the line distinguishing liberals from fascists only continues to get thinner.

Zelensky is a war criminal towards his own people.

I suspect they’re run by feds

Fascism requires an enemy.

I’ll bite. What do you not like about existing socialist states?

Omg an actual “human nature” argument in the wild.

Not to mention, so many of these public internet disagreements are likely involving bots.

Honestly this just makes it funnier.

They were allowed to write anything and they wrote “I can’t read this shit.”

I feel ya. It’s maddening. But I think after anarchists are confronted with reality it’ll convert a lot of them. It’ll take some ugly lessons though.