Beat_da_Rich @ Beat_da_Rich @lemmygrad.ml

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Same, comrade.

I heard he actually owns several tanks

While true, I think communists need to acknowledge the coercion at play here too. I've personally worked for plenty of managers in my life who sympathize with the workers they are tasked with supervising, but their hands are just as tied by their higher ups to do anything about it. If they don't fulfill their function they'll be replaced as well, and it's not like a lot of these people's are living glamorous lives either.

Just something to keep in mind when we find ourselves in dialogue with members of the management class.

Maybe, maybe not. I'm sure there were things they'd disagree with each other about. However, Marx had the benefit of living in an age with hindsight. Adam Smith didn't live to see the full effects and economic crises that came from the Industrial Revolution or even encounter Hegelian thought.

Ah, maybe I interpreted wrong? I thought Chris Evans literally betrayed the revolution and became the successor to the old dude.

I was just like, can't trust the settler left lmao

Snowpiercer was the same way. On one hand it presents it like it is. But on the other hand, it feels pretty nihilistic.

The Nordic countries literally have race-baiting fascist parties that are slowly gaining power through elections that they are allowed to participate in.

Totally something that's supposed to happen in pure, unauthoritarian socialism. /s

Honestly, when I read about what the Mongols and other medieval empires did to their enemies, it actually does make me feel like we've come a long way. As evil and destructive as people can still be towards one another, we don't dehumanize each other to such absurd levels as feudal regimes did.

Yeah, let's not become r/communism

On a surface level, whiteness is skin complexion. On a deeper level Whiteness is Western class collaborationism. That's why we see various nations throughout history be excluded and then welcomed into the club of "whiteness."

The Irish used to not be white. The Italians used to not be white. The Japanese were white, while the Chinese weren't, but then got kicked out of the white club, and now are being let back into it. Hispanics are currently being integrated into whiteness.

It's all such a bullshit illogical tool of division.

What the fuck.

I'm gonna guess it's the latter, given the democracy comment.

As soon as someone says "China's capitalist too" it's a sign that they are sorely lacking information on how Chinese system actually functions and it makes me wonder if they've even bothered trying to learn about it at all. The comparison is ludicrous at this point.

Sometimes people will hold seemingly conflicting views at the same time, people are messy and complicated and typecasting them into clearly defined ideological boxes usually ends in you writing flat and contrived characters.

Every fucking Ayn Rand character.

Rinse and repeat. American voters haven't learned a thing.

TIL Xinjiang is on the East side of China

The frustrating thing in the states too, is that the point of view of Chinese and other Asian people are often excluded or disregarded from these cultural conversations and even activist circles because the conversation about race is so often binary between Black and White struggles. Because of our "model minority" status, other marginalized groups just see us as off-brand Whites that are aiming to control everything (not to mention the working-class and militant Asian history in America is completely left out of our education system). Even in so-called progressive spaces dominated by Black voices will these conspiratorial takes on Chinese spies and CCP "elites" pop up. It's depressing as fuck and tempers a lot of my hope in the American socialist movements. It's not even just the "White Settler Left" which gets called out all the time for this shit. It's the Western Left in general, across all racial/identity lines, that has this problem that needs to be ruthlessly struggled against.

Gonna be completely honest, as an Asian it just makes me feel like I'll need to gtfo of this country soon because the scapegoating isn't just coming from the mainstream fascist right. I've heard it from people who should be my goddamn comrades.

Western media and politics has definitely reduced and obscured the overall class characteristic of fascism. People in the West seem to think fascism simply means "big government" and "hating Jews" because those were cornerstones of Nazi ideology. They're not taught that Nazism is just one historic manifestation of fascist ideology and that the greater ideological movement itself is opportunistic, disguised and flexible according to the particular place it arises from.

If they were taught about the material basis and goals of fascism they would have to reckon with the fact that their own countries histories were proto-fascist projects from their inception. If they were taught to recognize the signs, they would see that the same exact tactics, conspiracy theories, and rhetoric aimed against Jews in Nazi Germany have been used against Muslims in recent history (and continue to be so) and are currently being used against Chinese and other Asian groups as well. But because the way fascism and WWII in general is taught about in the West, Westerners have an incoherent understanding of fascism.

Remember the Abe-hole

It's idealist af. It'll take generations upon generations, just like in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Hell, we're still dealing with the remnants of old feudal orders in the age of late stage capitalism.

There is no communism button.