The strategy of the united front has always been instrumental to the task of winning power, and has always been superior to the modern American left’s default strategy of acting like only others within the “left” are worth reaching out to. Frederick Douglas and his movement achieved abolition by creating an anti-slavery power coalition; the Bolsheviks came to power due to their having worked in reactionary trade unions; the Panthers brought racist working class whites to anti-racism via outreach to them. Again and again, it’s proven that being insular is not the way to be effective. And with the political realignment that the United States population has been undergoing, the insular way of operating has become more foolish than ever.
Yes, we must build coalitions with those who oppose imperialism if there is to ever be any hope of not only stopping the US fascist regime from terrorizing the people of the planet but to replace the current socioeconomic system with a socialist one. A significant part of the disrupt and destroy program of COINTELPRO is infiltrating opposition forces and using divide and conquer methods to keep leftists divided. They did the same thing after the war in Ukraine started on Quora. The obsession with ideological "purity" and not getting one's hands dirty by taking sides with less than perfect capitalist nations against far worse imperialist ones is a huge problem. Leftists themselves will never succeed in the US without aligning themselves with conservatives, libertarians, and others who also oppose imperialism because the numbers aren't there. Ironically, though, conservatives who support civil liberties and oppose authoritarian oligarchy, censorship, and deplatforming are closer politically to socialism than liberals, who are now openly fascist. Supporting Ukraine, a literal Nazi state that suspends elections, bans religious groups, puts to death communist leaders of parties, and kills its own people is no different from Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Yes, we must build coalitions with those who oppose imperialism if there is to ever be any hope of not only stopping the US fascist regime from terrorizing the people of the planet but to replace the current socioeconomic system with a socialist one. A significant part of the disrupt and destroy program of COINTELPRO is infiltrating opposition forces and using divide and conquer methods to keep leftists divided. They did the same thing after the war in Ukraine started on Quora. The obsession with ideological "purity" and not getting one's hands dirty by taking sides with less than perfect capitalist nations against far worse imperialist ones is a huge problem. Leftists themselves will never succeed in the US without aligning themselves with conservatives, libertarians, and others who also oppose imperialism because the numbers aren't there. Ironically, though, conservatives who support civil liberties and oppose authoritarian oligarchy, censorship, and deplatforming are closer politically to socialism than liberals, who are now openly fascist. Supporting Ukraine, a literal Nazi state that suspends elections, bans religious groups, puts to death communist leaders of parties, and kills its own people is no different from Hitler's Nazi Germany.