It probably didn’t send the message he was thinking of
It probably didn’t send the message he was thinking of
The US forced Europe to de-industrialize so that they can scoop up their industry. Still working on the second part. Any day now, trust me bro.
The difference is that communists don’t pretend to be impartial or apply universal rules to all groups. We stand firmly on the side of the working class. Liberals pretend to be impartial and apply the same rules to everyone, but they obviously don’t, and that’s when they get called out.
I’ll have a Tito’s and soda
And you know the boba liberals will be like “no, I’m one of the good Asians! I hate China too!”
People these days know that capitalism sucks. Communism and socialism aren’t the dirty words they used to be. It no longer works to try to convince people that socialism isn’t good. The new propaganda strategy is to convince people that any viable form of socialism “isn’t real socialism.” Hence the belief in “state-capitalism.” For the same reason, people now call communists “tankies” instead of commies.
Anecdotally, at my most troubled, lonely, self-hating times, I was a libertarian type who thought I could learn the secrets of success by learning from Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, the Koch Brothers, the Roman Empire, and (misunderstanding) Nietzsche. It was only after I started dating, got therapy, got my degree, got a job, and traveled more to “tankie countries” that I became a communist.
Reactionaries: “Tankies are all white people!”
Also reactionaries:
Wouldn’t France be considered an empire?
The war is a proxy war between NATO and Russia that started in 2014 after the Maidan coup. When NATO threatened to allow Ukraine to join, it was a major escalation that demanded a response from Russia. In that sense, their SMO is an act of self-defense. I unequivocally support Russia on this, not because I agree with the Russian government’s domestic policy or long term vision for the world, but because NATO is the greater evil, and if they successfully contain Russia, then China is next, and we may never see a free world in our lifetimes.
Brobdingnagian if veritable