I honestly don’t get the need for so many online communists to deny war crimes and atrocities by states under attack/at war with the west
Yes no support for inter imperialist wars but by downplaying atrocities committed by those states they are inadvertently being the mouthpieces of imperialists states, just not western ones
Each bourgeois fraction, each bourgeois group or camp tries to use those of the others, by pinpointing the infamies of the neighbor to rally the proletarians to its own cause… Can we respond to this exploitation of our own crimes by the bourgeoisie by simply denying their reality? No! That’s dumb; in all senses of the word.
The proletariat does not deny the reality of torture, massacres and exterminations, even if it is not alone in suffering them. It does not deny the countless horrors perpetrated by the bourgeoisie, but it shows their real cause. Which – careful! does not mean that it absolves the executing agents. These horrors do not leave it indifferent, they arouse its hatred and its will to fight them. But it can only really fight them by placing itself on its class field, with its class perspective and its class weapons, and not by allying itself with forces that actually aim to paralyse it and subjugate it to the bourgeois order.
- Infantile Anti-Anti-Fascism, Le Prolétaire n°322