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I commented on your post in the Nihilist Communism group, tell me what you think

the anti-imperialists feel powerless in their own country, leading them to attack the working class there as fat, brainwashed, etc and attach themselves to whatever group of foreigners with guns. the anti-deutsch feel powerless in their own country, leading them to attack the working class there as racist, nationalist, authoritarian, etc and attach themselves to imperialist "enemies" of germany. i don't think there's much being offered from either camp and, in a way, they deserve each other.

i agree to an extent, but that position seems to be pretty central to their ideas and i find a lot of their "anti-nationalism" is just a warped form of nationalist exceptionalism. because of this i don't think their critique has much to offer in terms of conceiving how to build class power in our own countries, as even the moderate anti-deutsch believe (at least in their own country) that the working class are all genocidal maniacs in waiting. most of the writings i've read from them seem like they're going to put forth something interesting and new, but end up just being a negative image of the anti-imperialists they oppose.

it depends. a fairly wide range of people describe themselves as anti-deutsch or have some affinity to their politics. the more extreme elements seem like idiots and i've never met any, but i had a few friends in germany who identified with the movement to some extent and they were good people and generally had solid ideas, though we avoided more "controversial" issues.

I hope he (Asoka) talks with you on RevLeft soon.

You're in the same web group as Asoka89 (re. Platypus)?

sweet man, that sounds pretty exciting. we'll have a lot to discuss when i'm down there it seems. :-)