It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx (Marx Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 269.)

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  • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.mlvoting rule
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    I agree, although I would also argue that in the specific case of the US, the situation is a bit more drastic since in most (specially oppressed countries) the liberals/moderate fascists/national bourgeoisie have a somewhat “revolutionary” role since they generally oppose the international bourgeoisie and do win some concessions for the working class, as you mention, or help with industrialisation and so on. In the case of the US, though, both parties represent the international bourgeoisie, and the international political agenda of both countries is essentially the same, interventionism, imperialism, economic blockades, and so on, so the difference is radically different in that the number of concessions the liberals/moderate fascists can give the working class, specially the working class of oppressed countries, is much smaller than in other places. I too critically support the left wing liberals in my country because the option is total deindustrialisation and selling everything to the lowest bidder otherwise, so I totally get your point but wanted to make a small distinction.

    By the way, I don’t know if you’ve heard of Hexbear, they’re a pan-leftists instance who will be federating with us and a couple of other instances by the end of the month luckily, they have a pretty active anarchist community so you might have a better time there than on a general purpose liberal instance.





  • How many war crimes has the US committed versus SA? I don’t think SA even gets to the US toes, it’s just that genocide, political overthrowns, invasions, and what not are normalised and are okay when the US does it, but when another non-Western country does it is showed with 10 times the strength.

    US is not very far away from being so religiously fanatic, they have almost zero women’s and LGBT people’s rights, there’s rampant racism and xenophobia, I don’t know what news or history books you read but the US is absolutely on no moral ground to tell SA they are somewhat better.