• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    It’s an order of operations. If they try to resolve every contradiction all at the same time they stretch the revolution too thin and drive all of their enemies into one unified front.

    That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t even think about the other contradictions (in fact, progressive forces should internally theorize and strategize in secret about what to do after the colonial occupation is defeated) but it does mean that those secondary contradictions are to be set aside in public while they focus on the primary contradiction.

    Now isn’t the time to air the dirty laundry of everyone that’s on your side against the occupation.

    Obviously propertied interests are going to be a problem after the occupation is defeated, but until the occupation is defeated they can used. Not only does this increase the power and size of the decolonial struggle by creating a unified front, but without that ability to set aside secondary contradictions those propertied interests will join the occupation’s side instead. Those propertied interests are only using the revolutionaries for their own ends, but progressive forces are only using them in turn.

    This is how every successful decolonial struggle was won.

    Many decolonial struggles only achieved flag independence and failed to achieve sovereignty because they either failed to identify those secondary contradictions or chose to forget the secondary contradictions in their nationalistic fervor, but that’s not what I’m advocating! Once the occupation is defeated one of those secondary contradictions will become the new primary contradiction, and progressive forces will need to be prepared for that.

    But that has to wait. In the immediate struggle, everyone has a common enemy.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      8 hours ago

      For the first part of your post, where am I saying they need to focus on this now? I think I specifically said they don’t actually. However, we’re on an internet forum and it’s good to talk about these topics. No one is trying to divert the focus to this in totality. We are not part of either of these groups (I’m assuming). Can you stop acting like this shouldn’t be brought up?