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Formerly CraftBeerCommie. Now sober. Still a commie.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
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He was legally bound by both American and international law to stop sending them weapons.
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Yup, we did prove it. And the US only had to kill millions of people and spend trillions of dollars to do it.
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Can you cite the work of communist theory that lays out this doctrine?
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Yup. It's not just neoliberalism either. The early thinkers who advanced liberalism were pretty clear that individual freedom was reserved for the wealthy elite. Those ideals never applied to the working class, because they viewed workers as subhuman.
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It seems counterintuitive, but the core of fascism is the marriage of state and corporate power, and neoliberalism has been concentrating more and more power in corporate hands for decades now. Imo, neoliberalism makes fascism almost inevitable.
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You're not going to see that from institutions like Columbia or any other business because they only care about their bottom line. The fight has to come from working class people. There's no other way.
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idk what you want obama to do rn, now is no time to bomb a wedding
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Yeah, it's really terrible that people are just now starting to die in places like Gaza.
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I'll be honest, I'm probably sticking with my t-shirts and basketball shorts.
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Yup, China is far from perfect, but high-level corruption is also punishable by execution there. Meanwhile, the American oligarchy is working on stripping the country down for parts as we speak.
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And, for all their faults, socialist/communist states have done far more to level the playing field and tear down class hierarchies than any capitalist state ever could. And they did it while under constant threat from the capitalist powers that wanted to destroy them.
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Some corruption is probably inevitable until class society is totally abolished. So I think there is an important distinction: capitalism aims to perpetuate and strengthen class hierarchies, while communism aims to abolish them completely.
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Not trying to dunk or anything, but it's important to keep in mind that if you grew up in the US or western Europe, then you likely learned almost everything you know about communism from capitalists. Most communist countries were/are much more democratic than people think.
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As a Stalinist, the biggest thing that annoys me about the term is the association with Khrushchev.
Like I'm gonna defend the guy who put the USSR on the path to capitalist restoration. 🙄
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Someone should tell all the international tourists who visit the DPRK.
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😱
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Please stop
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I feel like I'm living in an alternate universe from these people.
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Or they were paying attention and simply didn't care.
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Imagine doing enlightened centrism on this when the hard right would love to bring back chattel slavery and most liberals are perfectly cool with prison slavery.
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In the last decade I went from identifying as a liberal to a Democratic socialist and then a Marxist.
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The working class of today is much more educated than the contemporary working class that those works were written for.
Not everyone needs to read theory, but let's not insinuate that people are just too dumb to understand it.
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This is a good point.
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The Vietnamese kicked Pol Pot out, and the US spent years trying to get him back in.
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You would think the people who chose to keep supporting Israel despite massive opposition to it within their own party would maybe take a little bit of blame here. They basically chose supporting genocide over beating Trump.
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Make sure you send some congrats to the administration that wanted to perpetrate genocide more than they wanted to beat this clown too.
You know, the people who actually had the power to change the course of the election.