World is regressing towards fascism more and more. Life is gettin too expensive.
Part of the world is regressing towards fascism. Other parts of the world are progressing towards socialism. More and more people around the world see they do not have to put up with the shit the West puts them through and are looking for other ways.
It’s important to reach out to your fellow proletarians around you to form a strong collective against this fascist rise in the West. History shows that where fascism rises, communism rises as well and communism has shown that it has hands boi
the west is just trying to take everyone down with it
The dying serpent always bites, and dying empires often engage in pointless and self-harming wars on their way out.
Overall there’s nothing to be worried about imo, China’s already passed the US in all the important metrics, and as long as it continues to link itself tightly with the US economy ( they even occasionally will do less than optimal trade deals with the US, as a long term strategy to avoid war ), we can avoid a nuclear war.
I saw someone say something similar elsewhere in the fediverse the other day, i will give you the same response: The West is not the World.
Your corner of the world might be getting worse (or more openly bad), but I don’t think the world as a whole is becoming more fascist; just the west and it’s satellites.
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Honestly communism has already won, the only thing that can prevent the world wide expansion is the climate crisis, if we can get over it, we’re good.
In the past week as I’ve been trying to understand the move-countermove + effect/knock-on if the conflict in Ukraine, I found myself getting more and more worried about possibility of the US nuking China as a “final solution”. Does anyone think that scenario has any potential to be realized?
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Even if the US were willing to sacrifice global manufacturing capacity by taking extreme action against China (which I don’t think is entirely outside the realm of possibility–a sick animal is the most dangerous when it feels cornered) they would have to rely on other nations to pick up the slack in production in the aftermath…the majority of which are either pretty friendly with China, or neutral, and would probably turn their backs on the US and its allies entirely. Of course, the US could attempt to coerce them with military power, but given what would probably happen to the US if they attacked China, I’m not sure there’d be much left to bully other countries with tbh.
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I wouldn’t worry too much. The CPC are obviously aware of this possibility. It’s going to be a factor in their decision making.
The thing to remember is that China is control of its actions; it controls its capitalists. The US, on the other hand, is controlled by capitalists. That’s why US foreign policy is about enriching its capitalists and US domestic policy is about protecting its capitalists from the workers they exploit.
How does that relate to the threat of US nukes? While Western capitalists see China as a threat to their free reign, it’s also a part of the global economy they make money off of.
The POTUS might control the nuclear football but his masters decide if and when he uses it. And while proxy wars are good for capitalists, nuclear war isn’t.
OH right, nuking China would nuke manufacturing. So we need to get worried when manufacturing becomes less dependent on China. Good insight.
Even without manufacturing, it’s also a massive and growing consumer market while spending power in the West decreases.
But if you’re worrying about the economic decoupling having implications, I still wouldn’t. We’re already seeing that China has eclipsed the US in terms of missile delivery technology and I wouldn’t be surprised if their willingness to decouple is paired with knowing that they have the US beat in missile defence, too.
Buy a gun (or multiple), read theory, and find some comrades. That is the biggest step, we can find the rest of the way together after that.
Adding to that: get in shape if you aren’t.
Just look at Ukraine and how much of the world really supports the fascist West. I’m going to tell you, it is far less than half the world. In all sincerity the USA is dead, and the West is dead by the end of the decade. After that it is WW3 which will hopefully do not too much and we can actually rebuild the society.
Imagine how bad things is here in U*****e. Literally full fash goverment, i wipe my phone clean everytime i go outside lol. Tommorow is victory day, wish me luck
Happy Victory Day!
Thanks!
Are you at least safe?
Yes. Although im on currently Uo occupied territory im perfectly safe apart from unpredictable occurrences. Im near Kv
Meant in terms of Russian airstrikes and other things with collateral potential. Good to hear though.
Gotta stay optimistic man no matter how hard it is.
I get that. Us in the west are pretty powerless. Especially if you’re in a suburb where there is rarely any kind of political organization at all, let alone socialist ones. At least in the US, can’t speak for the rest of the world. Seems like all I can do is just watch things fall apart until I get enough to get a car so I can actually travel to a place with political organization.
I understand where you’re coming from. I’m not gonna lie–I’ve cried a couple times this past week, and I’m sure there will be more.
But I owe it to every single human who lost their life to this system to bite and claw my way as far as I can go. I’m not going to make the fascists’ job easier for them. If they want me dead so much, they’re gonna have to come do it themselves, and that includes shattering my hope and disempowering my outrage.
They are banking on the fact that our misery will turn us to despair. We need to resist that as hard as we can.
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