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  • Article is from a Trots magazine. No surprise why they sound optimistic about revolution in the west, and why they don't talk about shifting power dynamics on the world stage. On the contrary I am convinced that Marxism-Leninism is showing us that socialism is everywhere but in the imperial core.

    I'd love to be proven wrong though!

    • Well a lot of global north country's citizens are becoming poorer and more desperate by the day, if the situation continues I think we'll see some revolutionary situation sprout in the poorest 1st world countries (namely Greece, Italy and the ex yugoslav block) unfortunately, as a member of this group, there are not real based parties, at least here in Italy, the biggest leninist party alienated itself by the masses when they took an anti-vax stance and allied themselves with "anti-system" right wing forces, but I keep my revolutionary optimism, here in Italy, at the end of the civil war the slim majority of the people were for socialism. I think if we can exploit this revolutionary situation we can - in the worst scenario - prove that communism is not dead in the first world.

      • Thank you for bringing a brighter perspective! Greece and ex-Yugoslav block have been used as a periphery of the imperial core so there are good chance they will side with the exploited world.

        All I hear about Italy is that you guys have like 5 different far-right parties and nothing else lol, I hope it's exaggerated at least

        France is at the beginning a general strike, that's neat, but what upsets me is that people appear unable to realise that the government don't give a fuck. The people have been banging their heads against a wall for like... 15 years now? Always "demanding x thing" while "let's seize control" is some forbidden language that shall not be spoke if you don't want to wake up the ghost Stalin and his big spoon

    • "Degrowth" and "Keynesianism" are the tip offs for the western chauvinism.

      I hate it when radlibs call developmentalist models in the global south "Keynesian," either when they're attempting to be sympathetic (Naomi Klein) or when they're denying global south autonomy with psuedo-marxist language (as in this article).

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