They don't fall for it, they choose to believe it to maintain their inflated perception of their own superiority above the Orient.
Would love for one of these fucks explain what the "nuance" is exactly
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
I think the most important thing is the Ukraine war showed what a paper tiger the west is. I don't think we would see the resistance in west Africa if it weren't for the war, for example. The US doesn't seem so all-powerful to the global South anymore.
I mean yeah, mass murder has been part of the cultural psyche since the beginning. Once genocide and lynching fell out of fashion, the violence simply turned inward. You can see the parallels with relationship between liberalism and fascism.
The last sentence is terrifying but only confirms what we've feared all along.
Neoliberalism has been particularly efficient at atomizing people and replacing many social and cultural things with products to be consumed. Low income obviously contributes to loneliness but its truly an epidemic across all income levels.
Damn the tankies were right again? Don't listen to them though the economy is actually great and Russia is totally gonna collapse any day now
Okay, see we should organize to violently depose the Republican party since they are the primary obstacle in the way of creating a more fair and just society, right?
They aren't gonna let these cars be sold in the US at all are they? Would love to have a cheap EV
It had to have been nearly 4C across the US
Its just how he speaks. He hardly ever explicitly supports any state.
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?
But this is a great system that the whole world needs to adopt, and if they don't we will make them at gunpoint