• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The USSR deserves credit for pretty much every good idea the US has ever had since the New Deal.

    And now that the USSR is gone, everything good the US has ever done is being eroded by fascists.

    Makes you think!

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        1 year ago

        It has nothing to do with autonomy!

        The US only implemented reforms to placate the working class and stop them from getting any ideas of revolution. The Cold War was an ideological war, so once the USSR fell the spectre of revolution was gone. The Cold War “proved” that communism doesn’t work and there will never be a global proletarian revolution and there’s no need to placate the masses to keep them passive.

        So, like I keep saying, that’s why everything good is being destroyed. They believe it’s not necessary because the threat of communist revolution is gone. The illusion of democracy is gone, now the ruling class can just do whatever it wants with no consequences.

        Who cares if climate change kills the poors?