Cuba is possibly the best proof of internal contradictions like bigotry against LGBTQ being better solved under socialism. They went from a horribly bigoted society to having the most progressive family law in the world, all within a couple generations.
It is frustrating af. Working class people are allergic to class consciousness. And if they get there from an emotional gateway, only a minority of them will actually follow through to learning theory and understanding imperialism. This is how you get self-described “socialists” in the US stanning Kamala and punching to their left.
To add to this, decline isn’t something that is guaranteed to happen swiftly. The decline and subsequent fall of Rome took centuries. I know that’s a cliche example, but it’s still useful to think of imperialist decline in this way. Considering the scale of its hegemony, the US nation-state is likely to follow a similar path of withering over time.
Yeah totally. Lets not romanticize working on an assembly line as a human machine. It can be mentally understimulating and hard on the body. At the end of the day we should be for automation under socialism so that it can free us from this drudgery.
Venezuela was an expensive PR mission that did nothing to actually threaten the Bolivarian revolution. Maduro wasn’t even in hiding and the government assuredly had plans in case the US pulled some BS like this. If anything, the state will be even more attentive to squashing possible US proxies and collaborators
The US is also literally incapable of occupying Venezuelan territory.
I think thats true for a lot of Western liberals generally. But a lot of liberals still do care about the wellbeing about people in other countries. They just have no actual comprehension about imperialism as a system and how they benefit from it as citizens of empire. Not saying their ignorance is excusable, but it’s what allows their compassion to be weaponized at whatever foreign boogeyman is next in empire’s scope. (“The Ukraine War is Russia’s fault,” “Uyghurs,” “Trump kidnapping Maduro is wrong but Maduro is still a meanie poo-poo head”)
My new years resolution is to simply stop talking to liberals. And that includes “leftists” who regurgitate imperialist propaganda. It’s simply not worth my mental health.
There are a few popular Chinese nationalist takes on history that are still questionable. Like on Rednote, for example, you’ll run into the narrative a lot that the Soviets became imperialists and tried to invade/nuke China. Lots of Chinese also still think nuking Japanese citizens twice was necessary, even though it’s pretty well established with further analysis that Japan was eventually going to surrender to the US or the USSR anyway without the use of nuclear weapons.
Yeah, these conversations can really only be had with other socialists who are earnestly trying to detangle themselves from imperialist propaganda of their own accord. Otherwise, it’s fruitless most of the time.
Really, you can extend that to any political discussion. You’re not going to convince anyone of anything if they are primed for debate mode.
Raising revolutionary children is a revolutionary act.
What do you mean by “that it means the US iscollapsing?” Because just looking at the general state of the US indicates it is. Could you be more specific about what you mean?
RIP Assata
This is a good breakdown. And a reminder that these large scale demonstrations and movements have multiple conflicting factions, liberatory AND reactionary. And unfortunately it’s the factions that are backed by Western capital that historically have ended up rising to the most visible platform.
It’s dumb that salons gender haircuts to indicate length. My stylist’s salon does this too. I signed up for male haircuts for months. However, they eventually told me to sign up for woman’s cuts so that they could better organize their time, so that’s what I do now. They charge me the male price still, which is cheaper.
I would just keep signing up for male cuts until they tell you otherwise.
Israhell’s on fire right now lololol
I volunteered for his campaign and actually have a picture with the ghoul. I feel your pain.
I get that we gotta be tactful in the way we try to convince their sincerely-minded fans away from their grift, but at the end of the day in discussions among communists, they deserve nothing but venom.
They’re sheepdogs. They could use their platforms to support revolutionary parties and figures. Instead they’ve individualized the US-Zionist sins to Trump/Netanyahu and offered Democratic politics as the only solution for naive young people once more. They had their uses years ago, but there current role is apparent. Fuck them and the immense damage they continue to do to the revolutionary left.
Yep. Libs are gonna lib. It’s best not to get emotionally invested in their shitlibbery.