• amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    6 days ago

    Late stage colonialism with narcissist characteristics.

    I kinda get why some people have wanted to laugh about Trump. I don’t really find it funny because of the real harm that goes with it, but it does feel almost like a RL setup and punchline that they went to all this effort creating this narrative about how Russian was supposedly meddling in USian elections in subtle and shady ways. And then Trump does this swaggering attitude like “yeah I interfered in an election today, it was a good day of interference, I look forward to more.” Whatever is the opposite of subtlety, he is that. He is the empire proud of its own barbarism, personified.

  • haui@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    6 days ago

    Its really confusing how brazen the fascists and such are acting. Is there any theoretical work that mentions this triend?

    • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mlOP
      11·
      6 days ago

      I remember a couple of analytical essays that talk about Washington’s strategy that may have been shared in c/geopolitics(?). As for theoretical works that fully describe this trend, I have none but we can arrive to an understanding if we apply dialectics with the geopolitical news that we have been reading so far. From my side, I will add a short cuban analysis that I have:

      spoiler

      In a publication dated January 23 of this year, we quoted an article from the Financial Times that stated that the United States intended to divide the world into three zones of influence with Russia and China, reserving for itself the Western Hemisphere from Greenland to Patagonia. Months later, the new US security strategy sanctifies that claim; America for Americans, at least, because the phone call between Putin and Maduro and China’s policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean contradict the division.

      And since the United States has to admit its weakness, it does not mind tearing off the rest of its masks and presenting itself as what it is: a bloodthirsty beast (oil, mineral resources, exploited masses…), as Che described it. No one should be surprised anymore by the outbursts of Trump, the empire, and its acolytes, nor should they expect them to behave in a diplomatic or polite manner. The theft of the Venezuelan oil tanker proves this. And so it will be from now on, and even worse. The internal divisions among Republicans are not due to moral dilemmas, but to doubts about success.

      We are experiencing the twilight that Gramsci spoke of.

      Don’t be surprised that fascism won in Chile. It has already become an axiom: when the left is not real, is not radical, and plays at democracy, it paves the way for the most grotesque face of imperialism. And the masses will do nothing because they are alienated from themselves and their situation, and ideologization as a weapon of human control has worked: Honduras, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, and now Chile.

      A very clear lesson for Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba.

    • darkernations@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      6 days ago

      https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism/

      Loss of markets of superexploitable labour so they tighten the screws where they still can influence both domestically and outside of nominal borders, and as rainpizza said if there is no alternative with vanguardism then they will win… for now. By defintion, as Kwame Ture says, wherever there is oppression there is resistance even if that resistance appears silent.

      I would argue though with regards to aesthetics they may not have the resources for sophistication to hide their sharp teeth behind a smile like they often do (Malcolm X).