So, okay, another one another thing that comes up a lot.

Thanks for all these questions by the way, everybody that contributed from what

Twitter, from our discord, from our discord,

conversations with some of my comrades in DSA.

What is left communist beef with national liberation struggles

and the right of all people to self-determination?

Do they want people to remain colonized? I would be way

out over my skis right now if I pretended to like be able to articulate the left-com

argument against national liberation, but I know because like, like I said before,

left communism without like something it's in reference to just to me seems sort of just like

communism right like in a sense now we're all just Orthodox Marxists we're just trying to

all figure out you know where we stand in that revolutionary tradition trying to bring it forward.

And I know that like my critique of historical national liberation and certainly the way that it's been

posited and done over the last several decades is that it was always the way that

Marxism was tied with these national liberation struggles was always about creating socialism you know by

beating back imperialism and colonialism it seems like the beating back

imperialism and colonialism part worked however if you if you look at Vietnam or you look at China or you

look at Angola, you look at places in Africa or East Asia or South America,

communism hasn't been created.

So it seems as though these ideas have grafted themselves onto what ultimately was a project

of replacing a foreign ruling class, a foreign capitalist class, and a foreign

political structure of the empire, replacing that with an indigenous

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