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Eventually Christopher Nolan will be correctly and ignominiously remembered as a great propagandist instead of an artist

It's honestly pure fucking racism. China is clearly just acting in an underhanded way and manipulating people by LOOKING like they are doing the right thing by bringing people out of poverty but really they are just waiting for their moment to assume imperial power. Those sneaky orientals-- I mean revisionists!

China is obviously a complicated entity. There are a lot of important questions to be asked about how they operate and how that fits into ideas of socialism and communism. But 1. this is their socialist project and not ours and 2. you definitely don't have the right to project centuries old racist tropes on them.

Everybody except the absolute richest 10% experience at minimum financial stress because neoliberalism has made everything require debt, which is inherently destabilizing and arguably traumatizing. Below that, you have people putting off medical care, severe mental health epidemics (everyone I know is on adderall, anti-depressants, or both), etc. all the way down to the worst squalor you will see anywhere in the world. It's pretty fucking insane and illustrates how the Emperor is truly wearing no clothes.

If you aren't from the US, I can guarantee poverty here is much much worse than you think

Becoming a Marxist shows you that Gandhi was a villain that is propped up by the west in the name of non-violence

They are telling on themselves so hard here, confirming that they were sending poorly trained soldiers to Bakhmut just to fucking die. Fucking monsters

It is very disturbing how Reddit-like that response is

This is genuinely terrifying

The last sentence is terrifying but only confirms what we've feared all along.

They aren't gonna let these cars be sold in the US at all are they? Would love to have a cheap EV

Hot take: I agree

The section in Blackshirts and Reds where he details what it was like for people in former Soviet countries when they realized they had been duped by capitalist propaganda and lost all those things they took for granted was really fucking sad

Its just how he speaks. He hardly ever explicitly supports any state.

Exactly, viewing it any other way feels like boutique ideology. We should be Marxist out of necessity not identity.

For sure, I definitely agree about just wanting a system that works. I am a socialist because it is the only path forward to actually improve society and we know this through applying Marxism, and frankly if that isn't the perspective you are coming from that will inevitably lead to dogmatism.

I have heard heard critiques from anarchists and Maoists along the lines of "you can't support something just because 'it works', it has to build socialism/erase hierarchies etc." which is both such a wild thing to say but also I agree with the kernel of truth in there. Like, yes just because something works for over the short term does not mean it will work long term and socialism is necessary to guarantee the reproduction of an equitable, just society. However, it is incredible to be so dismissive of projects that demonstrably improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people when we already know building socialism is going to be a long and difficult process filled with errors anyway. So we should dismiss successes in improving peoples lives because its not the "right way"? There is an incredible burden of proof IMO to say that such projects are ultimately harmful and frankly I have never seen even close to sufficient evidence presented to support these claims.

It's also incredibly revealing of the class character within global capitalism of the people who espouse these critiques. You are letting us all know that you are in a position where you are safe enough to wait for the "proper" socialist project to come along, but do you think colonized/imperialized peoples in West Africa or Pakistan have that luxury?

I think conflict over this comes from erroneously extrapolating the idea of "We need to ensure that the changing geopolitical climate furthers the socialist project" to "These countries are not socialist so therefore these changes are irrelevant to building socialism"

Totally agree

I have always thought of the president as a representing a specific cadre of the bourgeoisie that is still 99% in lock step with the rest with a little bit of pentagon infighting sprinkled in (war with Russia vs. war with China, etc.)

So if the president can't influence those essential issues that have the most direct effect on people's lives, you agree that voting for president is pointless?

School is starting in many places around the country, so it's a good time to remind everyone that schools in the US are utterly and completely fucked. One of the largest ongoing domestic neoliberal projects is the current privatization of schooling via the charter school system, highly recommend people research it a bit so they know what's going on.