We are Socialists, we are enemies of today’s
capitalistic economic system for the exploitation
of the economically weak, with it’s unfair salaries,
with it’s unseemly evaluation of a human being
according to wealth and property instead of
responsibility and performance, and we are all
determined to destroy this system under all conditions.
Their organization is called _anti_fascists_ ; just like the book 1984, they are fascists.
“No, sorry, you aren’t a resistance, because ... . No, you aren’t a resistance, and you don’t get to have that word.”
While absolutely true, the point is completely missed:
The issue is never the issue.
The issue is always the Revolution.
They want a constant state of resistance, fighting The Man, revolution, marching, striking, demanding, etc.
It doesn’t matter who, what, where, when, why, or how - just that they are advancing the undefined Revolution.
They have no interest in actually winning. To truly, completely, triumphantly win would be the end of everything they live for. Winning small battles is critical, making progress is laudable, but they must alway ultimately _lose_ so they can tap their self-righteous (if baseless) anger, regroup, double-down, and revolt again.
Insofar as they _might_ win, their invariable endgame is dictatorship: since they have fought everything & everyone who deviates in the slightest from all they declare perfect and worthy of terrible losses to achieve, they cannot stand for anything not perfectly in line therewith; freedom & liberty are utterly anathema.
Our side’s greatest failing is the irresistible urge to engage in rational problem-solving with the aim of a mutually beneficial conclusion.
They don’t give a d@mn what we think.
We are their declared opposition, the designated subject they are revolting against.
Every revolution needs an enemy, and we are it.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”, which is why they side so eagerly with those who would, given half a chance, literally decapitate/stone/hurtle/lash them to death as wanton kaffir.
Any negotiations & discussion both sides may engage in are simply to buy time & opportunity for the Left. Nothing we say will satisfy them. They will not take “yes” for an answer. We are the designated enemy of the all-important Revolution.
It is the act of revolution they seek. To ask them to stop, offering them anything to do so, is like offering them anything they ask if they’ll just stop breathing. ...and yet, even that they will do if it serves the Revolution.