Classified Pentagon documents containing information about US and NATO plans for a Ukrainian offensive and key details of the ongoing war have leaked. And the Biden administration is reportedly demanding they be scrubbed from the internet. Is there a hidden agenda behind the leak? The New York Times has reported “a significant breach of American intelligence in the effort to aid Ukraine” through the leak of classified documents which have been shared on social media. It correspondents cited “senior Biden […]
To me, the fundamental character of the systems and their typical behaviors means that I find it likely that something like this, about a capitalist empire, would be real, whereas something about a revolutionary government is statistically less likely to be true and more likely to be a psyop by a capitalist empire to stain their image. We don’t really have any examples of AES nor even anti imperialist countries manufacturing lies directly to Western audiences to defame their own countries…leaks that are “West bad” and especially “USA bad” overwhelmingly tend to be true and back up by lots of known contexts and precedents.
That said, I think that at a certain point intentional lying done overwhelmingly by capitalists/fascists has muddied the waters so much that it’s really hard at times to definitively say whether X Y or Z is true or false. And, quite simply, it is of my opinion that communists should let ourselves be a little less concerned about absolute perfection and more concerned with memeability and impact. I’d rather share something that turned out to be false as long as it radicalized people along the way. That might be a hot take because communism to represents the ultimate truth in every way, we have a monopoly on truth, so it feels ugly to say that, but at the same time, is vie oh lens not also an ugly thing that we have to utilize in a war where our enemies have no moral qualms chaining them down?
To me, the fundamental character of the systems and their typical behaviors means that I find it likely that something like this, about a capitalist empire, would be real, whereas something about a revolutionary government is statistically less likely to be true and more likely to be a psyop by a capitalist empire to stain their image. We don’t really have any examples of AES nor even anti imperialist countries manufacturing lies directly to Western audiences to defame their own countries…leaks that are “West bad” and especially “USA bad” overwhelmingly tend to be true and back up by lots of known contexts and precedents.
That said, I think that at a certain point intentional lying done overwhelmingly by capitalists/fascists has muddied the waters so much that it’s really hard at times to definitively say whether X Y or Z is true or false. And, quite simply, it is of my opinion that communists should let ourselves be a little less concerned about absolute perfection and more concerned with memeability and impact. I’d rather share something that turned out to be false as long as it radicalized people along the way. That might be a hot take because communism to represents the ultimate truth in every way, we have a monopoly on truth, so it feels ugly to say that, but at the same time, is vie oh lens not also an ugly thing that we have to utilize in a war where our enemies have no moral qualms chaining them down?