Holy shit they are so mad at basic facts, and none of them have any counter, just vitriol. That’s abaurd, but you’re right, effective agitprop creates enemies (and I’m flattered that you’d mention me alongside that).

Mega mega mega THREAD

Spot-on!

Yep, that would make sense!

dbzer0 as an instance and Hexbear seem to have been getting on better over the last year or so, gradually!

Blahaj is pretty anti-communist, it’s usually just transphobia and homophobia that causes reactionaries to group them in with us.

These people don’t see queerness as valid or Chinese people as human.

For clarity, I’m a former anarchist, now Marxist-Leninist (have been ML for years, my anarchist days are a good while ago). That’s going to color my disagreements, and Roderic Day as an ML’s as well.

I disagree that the state exists to “concentrate power,” as in accumulate more and more power. The state instead exists to protect the ruling class of a given society. This coincides with the formation of states historically, as they arose as class society arose. From that point, I also disagree with the notion that serving ones own class interests necessitates corruption. If the proletariat holds power over the state and uses it in its own interests, then this is both logical and a good thing. In China, for example, after the proletariat took power and wielded the state against the landlords and existing capitalists, life expectancy doubled:

This is why class analysis is so important. In socialist states, throughout history, life expectancies, literacy rates, democratization, the rights of women, education and healthcare guarantees, and more have all skyrocketed. The violence that comes from revolution and protecting the revolution isn’t because the proletariat used states to do so, but instead because class struggle does not cease overnight. Corruption exists into socialism, but this is not an insurmountable obstacle, and is instead something a healthy socialist state must keep in check, same as any other societal problem, as the state withers away gradually.

The author isn’t suggesting that people’s way of thought isn’t colored by how they live and exist, but rather that this is essential to understanding this. You can spread ideas, but you cannot “brainwash” people, for good or bad. They have to realize their own class interests to avoid falling into false consciousness, and this can be agitated for by those of us that have already undergone transformations (forever incomplete, and always transforming) in how we think. We have to bring people over.

Yep, that’s true! That’s why even France is pushing back more, alongside countries like Italy and Spain. The collapse in unity between the US Empire and the EU is the next step in the fall of the US Empire’s global domination.

No, you said this very well! 100% agreed, and another angle to explore is the impact on the ideological front for liberalism. The expansion of democratization in the US happened direcrly alongside the conquest, genocide, and enslavement of everyone that wasn’t white, creating a semi-landowner class almost like the yeomanry many settlers decended from.

In Europe, this same process happened, but alongside colonization, rather than settler-colonialism. The bourgeois democratization movements in the metripoles existed alongside the most brutal and savage treatment of the colonies, only this time separated by the ocean waters and land mass.

This type of “Herrenvolk Democracy,” or “democracy for the master-race,” is what shaped how the US and European bourgeois societies formed. The US Empire is incredibly brutal in its ongoing treatment of EMPOC, but the Europeans have developed a blindness towards their own guilt by focusing on the more naked brutality of the US Empire.

Basically pulled this from Losurdo’s article Lenin and Herrenvolk Democracy, which I’ve been reading (alongside some Amilcar Cabral and Comintern stuff), lol. You are spot-on!

Cognitive dissonance is common there.

The “Buy European” crowd tends to think neocolonialism doesn’t exist and that imperialism is over, and is just an “American thing Americans do.” Might be a hot take, but I actually think the breakdown is going to impact Europe before the US Empire actually breaks, as right now the US is pulling out of Europe and sabotaging any chance for Europe to pivot to friendlier relations with Russia/China, which Europe needs in order to cover for less US support and the imperialist war on Iran spiking LNG prices and cutting access.

The US Empire is falling, but the actual crisis seems to be more apparent in Europe right now.

The “Buy European” movement in a nutshell

Imperialism ends when the global south breaks their chains and organizers in the global north overthrow their capitalist systems. Imperialism is moribund capitalism, eating itself alive.

I got banned for “voting while tankie,” lmao

Same as saying the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was genocide against Polish and Germans

Yep lol

I really recommend reading Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing”. The IDF knows what they are doing. The people of “Israel” know what they are doing. They may seek narratives to comfort their worldview, but they are not ignorant and simply “duped” into committing atrocities.

Yep! It’s not that they are formless, but they are formed in a neutral way embodying whatever is culturally dominant. Humanity is a social animal, and Lemmy.world as a subsection is for those that specifically love the flavor “general, non-descript.”

PieFed.social is the PieFed equivalent of Lemmy.ml, as in it’s the dev-run instance, and as such has dominant views similar to that of the head dev. PieFed.world already exists, as do other instances on PieFed. Let’s just say this shit is entirely expected from that instance.