The Left has completely been liquified after many became outright regimists post-2016. And civil society has been hollowing out for decades, so there is nothing left there either. There is no opposition now. If you're anti-war now, you're more like Lenin at the Zimmerwald Conference - isolated amid everyone else you used to know who is nominally "left" going absolutely insane.
It is hilarious to me that just 20-some-odd years ago, we had major academics unironically writing that the anti-Iraq War protests were the birth of a "new public space," and then we had the same drivel written about Occupy and the early 2010s protests. All of that collapsed because civil society has been decimated. There is nothing buoying it.
Now, we are at the most dangerous point in many generations where a nuclear power sees itself in an existential war, and the other nuclear power is committed to total victory. What could go wrong? But even making such an observation is accused of "appeasement." Academics like Timothy Schneider have become pundits and openly claim that even suggesting nuclear annihilation is possible, and that we should be worried, is comparable to committing "blackmail."
Everyone says, "nobody wants a world war." But secretly, I believe the spirit has been so decimated that people certainly want their own annihilation at this point. So let's just admit the quiet part out loud and stop playing this fake moralism. I think in some ways, they want to die.
I think regular people have been so beaten down by the pandemic, the inflation crap, and everything else, that's why you don't see a mass anti-war mobilization.
The Left has completely been liquified after many became outright regimists post-2016. And civil society has been hollowing out for decades, so there is nothing left there either. There is no opposition now. If you're anti-war now, you're more like Lenin at the Zimmerwald Conference - isolated amid everyone else you used to know who is nominally "left" going absolutely insane.
It is hilarious to me that just 20-some-odd years ago, we had major academics unironically writing that the anti-Iraq War protests were the birth of a "new public space," and then we had the same drivel written about Occupy and the early 2010s protests. All of that collapsed because civil society has been decimated. There is nothing buoying it.
Now, we are at the most dangerous point in many generations where a nuclear power sees itself in an existential war, and the other nuclear power is committed to total victory. What could go wrong? But even making such an observation is accused of "appeasement." Academics like Timothy Schneider have become pundits and openly claim that even suggesting nuclear annihilation is possible, and that we should be worried, is comparable to committing "blackmail."
Everyone says, "nobody wants a world war." But secretly, I believe the spirit has been so decimated that people certainly want their own annihilation at this point. So let's just admit the quiet part out loud and stop playing this fake moralism. I think in some ways, they want to die.
There's that Rage Against The War Machine thing happening.
But even that has some suspect figures as speakers.
https://rageagainstwar.com/#Speakers
Also, Lula has taken a hard stance of non-involvement in the Russia-Ukraine NATO proxy war.
https://www.reuters.com/world/brazils-lula-cold-shoulders-germanys-scholz-ukraine-support-2023-01-31/
Even as the US is going through South America and trying to get their Soviet/Russian made military equipment to send over to the Ukraine front.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/01/25/sxzh-j25.html
I think regular people have been so beaten down by the pandemic, the inflation crap, and everything else, that's why you don't see a mass anti-war mobilization.