Campism

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Hello, and welcome to or welcome back to Colonial Outcasts, the anti-imperialist podcast that right-wing Iranian diaspora human rights lawyers would dismiss as campist, intellectually reductive, and morally bankrupt, as we don't really engage in both side-isms when it comes to the US empire and foreign governments or nations that choose to, like, resist it.

Don't know why this is still a hot take.

Why is the question central to this episode? Because today we are going to address the infamous open letter.

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I don't wanna keep listening to it.

I mean, the thrust of the argument is that we are campists.

We do not criticize or allow for any criticisms of governments that we see as anti-imperialist actors.

Hello, and welcome to or welcome back to Colonial Outcasts, the anti-imperialist podcast that right-wing Iranian diaspora human rights lawyers would dismiss as campist, intellectually reductive, and morally bankrupt, as we don't really engage in both side-isms when it comes to the US empire and foreign governments or nations that choose to, like, resist it.

Don't know why this is still a hot take.

Why is the question central to this episode? Because today we are going to address the infamous open letter.

...

I don't wanna keep listening to it.

I mean, the thrust of the argument is that we are campists.

We do not criticize or allow for any criticisms of governments that we see as anti-imperialist actors.

Uh-

But then, like, to elaborate a little bit more on, like, what's my relation to socialism, again, there are still occasionally these authoritarian tendencies you see, like, in, in the socialist tradition.

Uh, you know, I think there are aspects of the DSA platform, uh, especially when it comes to foreign policy, that I find enormously objectionable, uh, because I think they're basically just, um- Campists.

We can talk about campism if you want to.

And so again, that's, that's my way of saying like, uh, you know, you have to stick to what you believe in, which is like, yeah, we should have a society that like works for people, and not get super hung up on like, "I need to identify with this camp," or, "I need to identify with that camp and embrace everything they believe."