It's happening so fast and yet slow enough where i feel the population is just adjusting to it being the new normal. Very surreal
Cimbazarov
I dont really have it in me any more to watch someone with leftist policies win and be blocked at every step of the way
Jesus.
Ive had the hypothesis that the big bourgeoisie must be making out handsomely from this genocide, but i never actually dug into it.
I liked this quote from a article i saw on The Cradle "War is profit by other means" except replace war with genocide
Is right for once?
There is a difference between revering it and using it as an example to learn from. Lenin was objective when it came to analyzing and learning from the Paris Commune. He may have had warm feelings towards it but his argument in state and revolution was to learn from it rather than try to acheive exactly as it did.
The goal wouldn't be returning to the USSR but returning to socialism.
Yea that would be the challenge in using nostalgia of the past. That being said I think it has some use in agitation, but it's more important to follow class dynamics and unify people based on class.
I also missed that the question was specific to Eastern Europe, so idk how strongly the Soviet Union affects the culture
Newsom is easier to attack cause you can just blame anything bad happening in California on him. It also doesnt help that he is constantly capitulating to republicans on policies which are causing the problems in California.
Dems care way too much about appeasing Republicans on paper, when they'll literally never be satisfied and it does nothing to win them over
Socialism is inherently materialist. With other movements you'll see a reverence to some mythological past which is used to try to unify people (e.g. Italy and the Roman empire, Germany and the Volk, America and the 50s) which are all idealist. Socialism is about unifying people based on class. I think we need to move on from the soviet union and not try to romanticize it to try to make it some goal society should strive for. If the goal is becoming the soviet union, then we lose sight of dialectical materialism, why the soviet union developed the way it did, and how to learn from it as social scientists.
I cringe remembering how i debated someone about transgenderism being a mental illness
There are so many parallels from Trump to hitler or mussolini, and these liberal idiots cant stop comparing him to Stalin or Mao. Their understanding of historical figures is truly a simplistic smooth brained understanding. good guy-bad guy
Then genocidal Americans historical figures: its complicated
China's avoidance of getting involved in the other countries' politics is a strength and a curse. I once again am coming to the conclusion that socialism can only built as an international movement
I felt the same vibe when european soc dems were rebuking Macron for going after LePen for corruption or whatever it was. Like if she's actually fascist, you dont decide to play electoralism with them. Doesnt help that
sucks
Edit: I find the top comment so revealing of the liberal consciousness:
They see the laws of the US as material things, like the laws of physics. They dont even consider the millions of times Republicans/Trump/Billionaires/Corporations ignore and violate the laws with no repercussions. They are living in a fantasy world