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Problematic aspects of shared enemy politics (or) some bitter fights we cant avoid
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There is an expectation from many comrades that since we know ruling class is our enemy, most important enemy, that shared enemy should be the EXCLUSIVE unifying factor, for all of us to hold hands & sing kumbaya (or fight shared enemy).

There is another school of thought, one that recognizes reality as it exists now, recognizes the historical journey that led us to current point, recognizes we have to acknowledge the existing injustices in society (we don't have solve them right away — if we cant solve them without structural changes, but atleast one acknowledges existing injustices without papering over them or deny their existence to create false unity), the school that recognizes, without that acknowledgment, we will be divided up later, by ruthless forces from top, who already know how to divide each of us, into favored & disfavored groups, subject us to the same/new set of gradations when it comes to favorability & oppression, which they will 100% deploy, because that's the exact tactic they deployed for generations to maintain current rotten existing hierarchical order.

The later school of thought, recognizes the importance of unity thats based in reality as it exists, recognizes existing injustices, and recognised such unity is more stronger than the false unity of first approach, thats based merely on shared enemy. Shared enemy politics can be neutralized pretty easily as the enemy at the top only have to bring up existing divisions into the fore, for the infighting chain reactions in the shared-enemy group to start, coupled with sufficient repression from top (or them deploying carrot & stick approach), can lead to the self-destruction of shared enemy based relationships.

If one is serious about having stronger long-lasting relationships (thats a must to fight as stronger enemies as Capital/State/Fascism), we do need to talk about what divides us, as much as what unites us, so our worldview is shaped by reality as it exists now, reality that brought us to the current situation in the first place, rather than just focussing on the enemy.

This doesnt mean we only need to have infightings all the time that bring out the ugly differences, that exposes the old wounds. We can have the shared struggles against common enemies, but only when they are coupled with acknowledgement of reality. This again is important because once we do acknowledge, put ourselves in the next person shoes, it forces us to see, each of us are not operating from the same set of basic foundations, not operating from the same set of baseline oppression we are subjected to, and this will enable participants in the struggle to recognize what legitimate line of arguments are & what are not.

Once we do know what legitimate line of arguments are (even if the argument doesnt accompany sweetner i.e even if the argument is bitter because the underlying reality is even more bitter), we can still have the shared fights against common enemy, but atleast our shared fights are much stronger, as they do acknowledge that the struggle is not just for dismantling just those three primary hierarchies (State, Capital & Fascism), but we have to bring down all other forms of domination too, those much larger interconnected systems of dominations that aid those three primary hierarchies. As of today, those three primary hierachies, coupled with all other forms of domination, allows few strong to dominate many weak (in those classes of situations few are strong) & many strong to dominate few weak (in those classes of situations where many are strong) simultaneously, which is what the current state of each of our societies are.

Once we know most, if not all variables, when the enemy from top does deploy the division tactic, we do know which side we are on & most in the shared struggle already know that division is already a known variable that cant divide us anymore.

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