All the lefties I know were excited about rojava/ aanes. I've never met a lefty in real life that was pro assad, not saying they don't exist, but like: fuck em, assad sucked.
I think the "left" they are talking about are more like tankies or at least socialists who lean towards authoritarianism.
I know some people in my local DSA who uncritically support the idea that Russia is incapable of imperialism and who probably would have supported Assad because they were an ally of Russia.
Yeah, fuck 'em. This poor fellow is from Twitter, and unfortunately, there are definitely a bunch of brainrotted self-proclaimed 'leftists' there mourning Assad's fall and calling Rojava a CIA plot even now.
I hope Rojava prevails and perseveres.
Yes and now probably Rojava is going to get slaughtered by Erdogan
I'm not sure what your point is? Assad wasn't really stopping that, given that it seems turkey backed some militias that were able to mop him up in like a week with a surprise offensive.
Turkey has already been waging war against rojava for years now, and has been perpetrating a genocide against the kurds more broadly for decades. Their situation has always been dire, but its not over for them.
What leftist is out there supporting Assad?
There are more than a few on lemmy.ml, of course.
Lots of them. Usually buy into the whole axis of resistance crap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campism
Campism is the belief that the world is divided into large, competing political groups of countries ("camps") and that people with left-wing politics should support one camp over the other camps.[1] Unlike nationalists, campists do not support any countries for reasons such as ethnicity or national identity. Instead, campists support their camp for ideological reasons, because they believe their camp promotes their ideology, such as socialism or anti-imperialism.
TIL, thank you!
Campism is basically a pejorative like neoliberal, I don't know anyone who claims to be campist.
The wikipedia page is a pet article by some Youtuber named SocDoneLeft
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Campism&action=history
"Neoliberal" is not just pejorative and not only do people self-identify as neoliberals, but it is a term used in a neutral way in plenty of contexts.
Still, good call-out about the author of the article - thanks!
I tried but couldnt parse this post. Idk whos side this guy is on and i dont know whos side he thinks im on. Very confusing lol.
"Assad falling is good, because Assad is a dictator. The left should be against dictators, yet many on Twitter proclaimed that supporting the dictator was Good Leftism, Actually.
Syrians and Ukrainians should be supported by the left. Just because Assad and Russia are enemies of the capitalist West doesn't mean that they should get a free pass from the left to oppress Syrians and Ukrainians.
Palestinians should be supported by Americans. Just because Israel is a nominal ally of the US doesn't mean that they should get a free pass from Americans to oppress Palestinians.
Reject tribalism. Embrace moral consistency."
Given HTS historical ties to exteemist groups like Al Qaeda I do hope this is a good thing for all Syrians. Time will tell.
The best thing they could do is break Syria apart based on ethnic lines, and create a federated alliance. They could also do the anarchic strategy, especially since the rest of the world is in chaos. Relying less on industry might be an advantage.
Undoing the vestiges of colonialism is bloody work, but the current system of dictatorship/oil-cartel is hardly sunshine and roses for the locals.
I truly hope the people living there get to decide their future and the Kurds carve out a real state, not just autonomous zones that Turkey bombs at will. The way we abandoned them was disgusting after they led the fight on the ground against IS/Daesh.
Sadly though I don't think whoever grabs power will be eager to give up land and resources to competing factions. Hoping it doesn't end up this way, but I think ethnic conflict is going to be more likely than cooperation.
Is this X implying that Zelensky oppressing the Ukrainian people?
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Yes he fucking is, as is every bourgeois politician, including putin. And don't forget the gratitude HTS expressed towards the Zionists. The Syrian revolution had an immense progressive potential in 2011-13 but nowadays I'm just glad the war is over but at the same time I'm concerned about what happens next to Kurds, since HTS also had a substantial backing from the genocidal irredentist Ankara government.
I'll just leave this here.
Pretty much every geopolitical action we take is for our oligarch's profit. Sabotaging regimes that wouldn't be friendly to exploitation, installing regimes friendly to resource extraction for a song, defending good business partners doing genocide and human rights violations, etc.
Don't mistake a broken clock like helping Ukraine with benevolence. We never have been benevolent.
We didn't even enter WW2 as some benevolent heroes, our pacific fleet was decimated, the war came to us so we went to war to fight back. The US practiced eugenics prior to and even post WW2 though involuntary sterilization of those seen as undesirables. Had the Axis not thankfully committed the greatest strategic blunder of the 20th century, we wouldn't have for a lot longer, if at all.
Once again, Venezuela 2002 is not the same as the others
