Maybe, maybe not. The DNC has been funding ICE about the same as the GOP, and Harris was running on an anti-immigrant campaign to the right of Biden. Moreover, however, the global south would still be imperialized, Palestine would still be the target of genocide, and austerity would continue to be enforced domestically. Late-stage imperialism is the driver.

The US Empire is currently using its millitary to plunder the world, and protect the imperial core from retribution from the global south. It needs to die, ideally by being overthrown from within.

It’s important to contextualize that the concessions of the FDR period were a response to better working conditions in the soviet union. This was a calculated move not to help workers, but protect capital.

Yep, and they also seem to forget that the death of old-style colonialism doesn’t mean that they aren’t still super-exploiting the global south with imperialism and neocolonialism.

My assumption is that it’s mainly from Europeans that don’t believe they are actually imperialist. Most are aware of how bad the US Empire is, but Europeans act like they aren’t complicit vassals. Though, they do seem to be getting demoted to periphery, hence Starmer’s warming relations with the PRC in the last few weeks.

Why are you pro-NATO? NATO is similar to the Iron Dome, it’s “defensive” of an actively imperialist hegemony. Spearheaded by the US Empire, NATO countries are all guilty of plundering the global south of the surplus value they create, through financial domination and overt millitary action. Western IMF loans require austerity or a concession of sovereignty, and in this process the global north gets extremely wealthy at the expense of the global south. NATO’s role is to protect this process of expropriation.

As stated elsewhere, I’m incredibly skeptical of any strategy that depends on trying to “convince” capitalist organizations to help the people. This is entirely contrary to how the working class has historically taken power, the organization must itself be a worker organization. Lady Izdihar made an excellent model of the Leninist theory of revolutionary organization:

Worker organizing has consistently been the most effective and widespread form of gaining working class control. We cannot simply appeal to congress, even if we could flip one against the system they represent, they would be drummed out of the party and relentlessly harassed. The capitalist system protects itself from within, and must be overthrown by the working class.

I’m incredibly skeptical of any strategy that depends on trying to “convince” capitalist organizations to help the people. This is entirely contrary to how the working class has historically taken power, the organization must itself be a worker organization. Lady Izdihar made an excellent model of the Leninist theory of revolutionary organization:

Worker organizing has consistently been the most effective and widespread form of gaining working class control. We cannot simply appeal to congress, even if we could flip one against the system they represent, they would be drummed out of the party and relentlessly harassed. The capitalist system protects itself from within, and must be overthrown by the working class.

The party is necessary to actually overthrow the government. Voting for said party helps show that the present system is rigged, and helps get the word out about their platform. See Lady Izdihar’s diagram on the Leninist theory of revolution:

In short, PSL is a revolutionary party that engages in electoralism not for belief in winning, but as a part of revolutionary strategy.

Both the DNC and GOP get judged. The major reason why the DNC gets more attention is because there is a significant portion of the population still under the belief that the DNC is a meaningfully better party, when both are in service of capital and both are imperialist, genocidal orgs. Therefore, the working classes need to organize in parties like PSL and directly replace the dying system of late-stage imperialism.

Even if everyone that voted third party had voted for Harris, she still would have lost. Voting rates are extraordinarily low in the US Empire in general. Both parties are ultimately capitalist parties that are entirely divorced from the working classes, and the need for a working class party like PSL is critical for any advancement.

Thank goodness for orgs like PSL.

Smith in shambles after Marx clowned on him too hard, now no more supernatural hand to do my laundry smh

Same with laundry…

The US Empire, in Marxist analysis, is the international dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, supported by its vassals like Canada, Australia, western Europe, Japan, the ROK, etc. As the US Empire decays, world imperialism weakens, and the ability for socialism to rise gains.

I see lots of non-Statesian content too, mostly from the communists. Lemmy.world tends to be Statesian centric, but is far from communist.

The strong presence of communists is very normal, actually, though I don’t know what you mean by “American-coded.” Lemmy was created and is developed by communists, and communists in general are atttracted to FOSS tools and platforms.

This seems more like orientalism than an actual thing. The US is set up that way because it values capitalists above all else as a capitalist country, and this system puts them above the law.

What do you mean by China not caring about the individual? Are you referring to how they center the working classes over private interests?

I work out in the morning, before work.

Rest in peace, comrade. You were vital in my growth into a Marxist, and it cannot be overstated how many people you’ve made into communists. May we carry on your legacy!

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