FunkyStuff [he/him]

It is adventurism just by definition, unless it’s being carried out by some kind of underground, organized revolutionary cell network.

The problem with this formulation is that an agreement in ideals or values says nothing about an alignment in strategy. If one group thinks the only way to achieve its goal is to agitate, educate, and organize the people to the point that they’re capable of the complete overthrow of the status quo, while someone else thinks that the status quo can be reformed and made to serve the people, their strategies will actually be completely opposed to each other. That’s true regardless of the fact that both of them might be motivated by the same thing, and even the same goal.

“the left” is never going to get anywhere if they’re so eager to eat their fucking own I don’t think it should be taken as a self-evident truth that a social democrat is “our own” when the goals of a social democrat are to fix capitalism, while revolutionaries’ is to sharpen the contradictions. I think that in this case OP does just like posting bait, and this post is bait, however.

IIRC he had never firmly committed to boycott Cornell. He had been asked about it and said something more or less like “yeah I’ll look into it.”