Four years into Russia’s invasion, Taras Bilous — a socialist serving in the Ukrainian army — reflects on exhaustion, negotiations, and why a bad ceasefire could be a boon for the far right.
I’m so tired of those self proclaimed peace mongers telling people to roll over and let it happen in the face of imperialist aggression.
It’s not peace if you don’t resist a violent attack and get violated anyway. It’s not peace if you end up under a violent oppressive regime that keeps attacking you whenever it pleases as a result of not resisting.
And enabling violent imperialist aggression and subsequent oppression in the name of “peace” for sure isn’t pacifism.
Unfortunately, that stupid performative pacifism has thoroughly discredited pretty much any self proclaimed “leftist” movement. And that now, when we’d need the political left more than ever, with a neoliberal at best, and outright right wing mainstream at worst, chipping away at our rights, livelihood, and future with ever increasing force.
Unfotunately, it does.
I’m so tired of those self proclaimed peace mongers telling people to roll over and let it happen in the face of imperialist aggression.
It’s not peace if you don’t resist a violent attack and get violated anyway. It’s not peace if you end up under a violent oppressive regime that keeps attacking you whenever it pleases as a result of not resisting.
And enabling violent imperialist aggression and subsequent oppression in the name of “peace” for sure isn’t pacifism.
Unfortunately, that stupid performative pacifism has thoroughly discredited pretty much any self proclaimed “leftist” movement. And that now, when we’d need the political left more than ever, with a neoliberal at best, and outright right wing mainstream at worst, chipping away at our rights, livelihood, and future with ever increasing force.