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  • The worst part was what he followed that up with

    The people who criticize Israel are essentially saying, ‘Yeah, but look how many people you’ve killed in retaliation, how many is enough for you to kill to punish them for the terrible things they did?’ That all sounds nice until you realize what you would do if it was your family and you hadn’t done anything but support a homeland for the Palestinians, and one day they come for you and slaughter the people in your village.

    Yeah. Sure. The genocidal settlers living on stolen land, in stolen houses, haven’t done anything but support Palestinians.

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  • The US political system is designed to swing back and forth between two right-wing parties. It would be less successful at dividing people and keeping out opposing ideas if only one party won all the time, and they know it.

    The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."



  • USSR Enjoyertochapotraphouse@hexbear.netI give up, reddit wins
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    17 days ago

    Just pointing out that the titles have changed, but the roles haven’t

    I don’t want to quote paragraphs here, but read chapter 1 which gives a pretty simple intro to that analysis.

    But I guess I just wonder how we get from where we are, to the global awakening

    For me to answer that would mean poorly paraphrasing the sources I listed. The scientific analysis of this question has been done, and the historical examples we can learn from have been written. Both are fascinating and engaging once we get over the hurdles of our societal conditioning. Historical truth seen in contrast to the western narrative is radicalizing. I recommend going through that material and seeing what questions you have afterward.

    I know that sounds like a brushoff; it isn’t. Our shared understanding of the scientific analysis of the problem really is how we crack the nut of class consciousness. We have to coherently understand the problem to effectively communicate it and wake up others, and the success of that process is borne out by history. Without class consciousness we will never cohere to fight our class struggle. We all awaken in this system as individuals; you, me, all of us. The capitalist system will show us its contradictions, the existing ML analysis gives us a framework for understanding and communicating those contradictions.

    I’d also say that where you’re putting “the US did something” I’d say the global oligarchy did it using the US military machine

    I hope I don’t sound condescending, but learn the history of the empire and imperialism. It’s an endless bloody nightmare in the intentional blindspot of US history. Americans realizing they’ve been lied to about pretty much everything is part of the fun.








  • Democrats (well both major political parties in the US) are capitalist and, as such, are standing on the conveyor belt of capital interest, which constantly moves to the right. They would have to seriously fight against the forces of capital in order to just appear to stay roughly in one place, which they do not. The last time there was any meaningful resistance to capital interest were the Keynesian reforms to get out of the Great Depression, but that was really only to keep capitalism on life support long enough to roll them back.