It hit me today that western institutions and people will look you dead in the eye and tell you that socialism, an extremely popular ideology used by many prominent anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, liberation movements across the Global South, is awful. Like, they get away with calling those who they oppress stupid and uneducated without any repercussions.

People just stop and go, "hmm, I wonder if these guys who are striving for actual freedom and liberation for their people have a point. No! I, the person benefitting from their oppression, must obviously know better than these dirty poors when it comes to their political affairs and oppression! They are just inferior, not in a racist way though, I swear guys!

There is a reason the west does everything in its power to suppress it. There is a reason they are willing to sacrifice thousands for a war in a country that has nothing to do with them. There is a reason they will starve and slaughter those people. They know socialism, they know that it’s dangerous for their greedy oily paws. Socialism is the proces of humanity stepping into a new era of peace and progress, a human future. Socialism is liberation. It forces the worst actions out of the bourgeoisie for a reason.

  • Catradora-Stalinism☭M
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    2 years ago

    Another side of it is that the blame gets shifted. When a terrible accident happens in a sweat shop in Bangladesh because it was running as cheap as possible it’s the company buying from them’s fault, not the public at large who demand cheaper and cheaper goods.

    It’s the fault of the companies for making conditions so bad! Not the fact that I would refuse to pay the prices necessary to improve conditions for the workers.

    Sort of true, but it really is mostly the company’s fault the conditions are bad and that they are doing market competition to have the prices that way. That is one core of our ideology. It is true, “though”, that liberals care little about the ones “over there” and would be quite disappointed if they had to pay more if the workers “over there” are.

    • Pathetic_Apathetic
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      2 years ago

      I fully agree, I don’t mean to come across that it isn’t the pursuit of profit that isn’t the main driver at the end of the day. I guess maybe it’s more like people absolve themselves of having to take any stance or action.