Exactly, viewing it any other way feels like boutique ideology. We should be Marxist out of necessity not identity.

For sure, I definitely agree about just wanting a system that works. I am a socialist because it is the only path forward to actually improve society and we know this through applying Marxism, and frankly if that isn’t the perspective you are coming from that will inevitably lead to dogmatism.

I have heard heard critiques from anarchists and Maoists along the lines of “you can’t support something just because ‘it works’, it has to build socialism/erase hierarchies etc.” which is both such a wild thing to say but also I agree with the kernel of truth in there. Like, yes just because something works for over the short term does not mean it will work long term and socialism is necessary to guarantee the reproduction of an equitable, just society. However, it is incredible to be so dismissive of projects that demonstrably improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people when we already know building socialism is going to be a long and difficult process filled with errors anyway. So we should dismiss successes in improving peoples lives because its not the “right way”? There is an incredible burden of proof IMO to say that such projects are ultimately harmful and frankly I have never seen even close to sufficient evidence presented to support these claims.

It’s also incredibly revealing of the class character within global capitalism of the people who espouse these critiques. You are letting us all know that you are in a position where you are safe enough to wait for the “proper” socialist project to come along, but do you think colonized/imperialized peoples in West Africa or Pakistan have that luxury?

But this is a great system that the whole world needs to adopt, and if they don’t we will make them at gunpoint

I think conflict over this comes from erroneously extrapolating the idea of “We need to ensure that the changing geopolitical climate furthers the socialist project” to “These countries are not socialist so therefore these changes are irrelevant to building socialism”

Blue steel looking ass

My god the way they draw Putin is so fucking racist

I am noticing a lot of similarities with the postbellum American South. They really want to be the Mississippis and Alabamas of the world?

I am begging you liberals to just be familiar with the most basic parts of Marxism

Not the logical fallacies 💀

Love how they imply that you are some potentially dangerous mass shooter. Gotta love weirdo lib behavior

School is starting in many places around the country, so it’s a good time to remind everyone that schools in the US are utterly and completely fucked. One of the largest ongoing domestic neoliberal projects is the current privatization of schooling via the charter school system, highly recommend people research it a bit so they know what’s going on.

In the US the police will literally shoot puppies for no reason. You think if they actually thought he was a Russian asset at all they wouldn’t have capped his ass?

My favorite contradiction about this is how westerners engage in the most ridiculous purity politics about violence but when it comes to dropping bombs that can literally end humanity and destroy the planet on hundreds of thousands of civilians, apparently that is justifiable.

No we have to push ourselves further and further to the right because that’s what voters want!!!

They like feeling like others are worse off. Its all they have.

Michael is like 80 still doing awesome work, I think he deserves some slack lol

Mali is no longer ruled by western interests so they gotta get the propaganda machine going i guess

The musk stuff is the current liberal raison d’etre, its fucking weird

It is clear that childrearing in the west has become incredibly cruel, so I would say children are definitely treated like subhumans. I have some theories about why that is, but would love some resources to learn more about it rather than just word vomit some complete conjecture.

I definitely have a hard time consuming media now that I can see the ideology it subtly yet effectively espouses, especially anti-communism. And now that I am outside that, I see how the labor aristocratic people around me basically center their lives around propagandistic fiction and I can’t help but see it as disgusting. So certain things like that, I don’t think I will ever be able to engage with again and will always call out the politics involved.