Thread by @GlumBird

The censorship of Novara by a capitalist monopoly is not a victory for anyone. If the process of digital information control extends to even right social democrats (who platform eugenicists nonetheless), its acceptance allows an expansion to all left media.

https://twitter.com/novaramedia/status/1452948347438911490

I despise Novara, but we do not cheer the growing assertiveness of reactionary monopolies.

I fully allow for the possibility this is a grift too: don't give them any fucking money

Apply the principle "we work for the defeat of social democratic opportunism by our own hand, no-one else's"

To defeat opportunism, we have to be more principled than it in every way. Novara condemned KtB protestors in Bristol. We oppose their censorship as damaging to the movement at large.

The point illustrated is that they are traitorous and we are not.

https://twitter.com/GlumBird/status/1373966113852301313?s=20

If this is a grift or the account gets restored, then it is a rehearsal of how different tendencies respond to these kinds of information control expanding their assertiveness. We need to be clear on that.

The same logic operating in cheering this operates when we see people on the left cheering the state and public criminalization of Insulate Britain. This dynamic benefits capitalist reaction, and its social democratic allies.

Lenin: marxists.org/archive/lenin/…