yeehaw cowboy this is a mighty fine all american thread y'all got here
4chan is trying to take down the Lenin Statue in seattle. How do we fight back?
There's a few: en.wikipedia.org
There's even one on Antarctica. My country has no lenin statues but it does have a stalin statue :^)
There are several I believe.
Nothing. Fighting over street decoration is not politics. When communism seizes power, it might become a practical task.
Simple, we don't play the game comrade. If we sperg out over the removal of a statue, we make it appear like a victory for the reactionaries. They will feel like they have delt us a blow, and will become emboldened. If we walk away, then what honest damage have they done us? Little, not counting the ego. If they succeed? We can just start painting murals of Lenin or Hammers and sickles across our international reach, then photograph and post them to the chans and the normienet, let them know that we aren't monolithic.
The moment we start playing this game, we might as well lose. We need to remain formless, elusive, and fluid. Our monument is the society we are building, not some giant copper idol.
We bring cameras to fill our /cow/ folder.
It's just a statue who gives a damn.
The reason people attack the statues of confederates in the United States is the statues themselves are part of a concerted effort to change history and muddy the waters of what happened, that's why there are millions of them and only a few of say Lenin or Marx in the United States. The taking down of confederate monuments erected in the recent past is basically an attempt to return them to their proper place in history- that of the cemetery and the museum and not as representatives of modern governance in the united states. That's the big difference between say statuary of the founding fathers versus that of confederate generals- one group is the entire basis of American government while the others are basically participation trophies for traitors and treason.
Much like the alt right people are fond to say- in an ideal world there are no participation trophies, especially not in civil wars.
THERE IS A LENIN STATUE IN AMERICA?
A confederate statue erected on private land is perfectly safe, gaudy but safe. Nobody cares about the guy with millions of billboards of aborted fetuses and obonglers eating dogs or whatever- though they will not be free from judgement. On the other hand people do care if their local government begins installing monuments of the ten commandments and statues glorifying traitors and treason.
lets have a massive commie rally around it, imagine the lulz