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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I thought the UK already has nukes what the hell does this even do?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is Chile the best or worst country for high speed rail?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING IN XINJIANG THAT CHINA DOESN'T WANT US TO KNOW!!!

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So as I've had my fair share of a lurking/grass-touching period and my brain being the 3 year old philosopher it is, I have collected questions overtime that I haven't quite be able to fit in anywhere. As they would have no use to me wasting away in a notepad, I decided I would share them with you guys in order to develop opinions. You can answer any or none at all, just releasing the valve so my brain doesn't explode.

-Even though the Scots-Irish are now culturally absorbed into American "Whiteness", is there still a subconscious bias against them/colonial scars?; Of course not the "Irish" politicians and oligarchs, or someone refusing a Big Mac because it was made by a Paddy--the slur, not to be confused with the bun, which is reasonably rejected as that middle bun is but a cosmetic deviation from a McDouble to make you spend more and causes serious TMJ upon unhinging the jaw for consumption-- but the bias against the Scot-Irish in the guise of classism, with treatment of rednecks and "white trash". Now I myself have never lived in the south, but I have my own experience of being poor and surrounded by rural fly over America. Forgetting the transference of ethnic prejudices into classist ones, the actual territory of predominately Scots-Irish aren't known for their economic strength. Appalachia and the South are still deeply poverty stricken and lagging behind the rest of the States. I do not mean this blurb to be whining as an "irish american"(mutt) or anything, but more so an example for the colonized and marginalized of how being "accepted" by the state isn't the same as empowered and liberated with reparations. The libs will just come up with new terms for stereotypes and ignore any real change.

Wasn't much of a question was it hahaha. Sorta ties into second question (you'll see)

-Does being blue collar or "working class" (American sense) tend to bring social bigotry itself, or has the state purposely planted seeds of bigotry into the minds of manual labourers knowing they posses a revolutionary character which would be in deadly combination with liberation groups for the marginalized? Frankenstein question, has the petite bourgeoisie and intelligentsia been "focused" on social change because it separates them from the working class? (In the image sense for their own classist reasons, but also in the political solidarity sense with pressure from the state). Why you find bigotry in areas heavy with the working class and poverty, regardless of the demographic make up there. Also the natural drag of the rural behind the urban.

This one is less of a theory question but more of a personal one.

-For you guys in the imperial core with me, do you ever wonder why it was us who happen to be the lucky few who have become Marxist Leninist and have managed to dodge all the propaganda, especially with the "left" bootlicking? Is this some weird destiny of being born in the Empire, Living through the empire's death, and actually being able to see it while others around can't. To be ahead of the tides as Imperialism turns inward. Why us be the seeds to plant and grow the resistance within the bloating belly of the beast before it bursts? I know it's not using DiaMat, but it feels surreal. Not just in this weird destiny talk, but seriously what made us able to be radicalized materially? We are so few, but what was the common thread?

I think I was supposed to have more, but if I come across some I'll let you know, feeling burnt out from this lol.

Edit: Knew I was forgetting something >:)

-How come the Far Right have enough emotional intelligence to parrot leftists talking points, or misconstrue them, while being absolute bigoted pieces of shit themselves?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be honest I am pretty put off that they discredit some of the biggest strides in decolonization, and I think it stems from a lack of class analysis. Why do they see exploitation of the land for the good of all as settler colonialism?

From what I have garnered so far, settler colonialism is based on hierarchy of "national classes" (for lack of a better word). Nations have a class of proles and bourgeoisie, when in a settler colonial state the bourgeoisie give a their proletarian cultural group a priority and kickbacks for settling hence the bourgeois position. So the settler proles and oppressed proles hold contradicting positions, as long as the settler proles hold a bourgeois position.

We have seen settlers and indigenous nations work together to overthrow colonialism, in the USSR, China, Cuba and even with bourgeois democratic states in LatAm. Why is this? I believe it is because the class of settlers have been proletarianized enough to align with the oppressed and synthesize into a new state. Russians, Han Chinese, and Spaniards under the boot of Imperialsm had proletarian positions, and thus could synthesize with any oppressed nationalities With DOTPs specifically we see the first blow to settler colonialism, the elimination of the bourgeoisie as an oppressing class and thus the need for nations in the first place has started crumbling.

Sadly Tuck and Yang's Liberalism holds them back from a class analysis, but their own class interests allow them to address settler colonialism. At the moment, they ARE right in saying that the most progressive way to decolonize the US is putting land back in Indigenous hands (proletarian hands). This is because as long as US Imperialism exists (as it does now) the Euro Americans hold a bourgeois and counter revolutionary position. (keep in mind this is not an exact science, and anglos are being proletarianized more and more each day. Hell I am a white settler and I am living barely on paycheck to paycheck).

What happens is the Indigenous revolutionary kernel is much more developed compared to the Settler revolutionary kernel. Thus the indigenous people hold a vanguard position, as any indigenous population has always had across history. Only when settler's kernel is developed enough can it synthesize with the oppressed nations into a DOTP. And you can see indigenous leaders for decolonization even without a class analysis advocate for this synthesis. The more settlers work together with the oppressed nations, the less it will be solely indigenous but until that happens it holds an indigenous character (if that makes sense)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Agh a "centrist" past their prime. So they say they don't have political opinion cause they "aren't interested in politics" or "I'm better than these rAdICaLS". I mean I think it could work out, Parenti starts off destroying fascists and critiques the USSR so I think if they see any "red flags of a tankie" they are already too deep in the book. I say go for it, but it's your life.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Now how conservative? Racist, homophobic, or transphobic?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why is it based against NATO but then hates on the DPRK and calls the Native Americans “landlords”? It even talks a bout China wanting to dismantle the West’s power but then calls Isn’t real a “nerdy nephew”, what political stance is this? I’m so confused...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

thats probably one of my favorites, love how they morph Hitler into a napoleon bean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ah Capitalist South Korea bringing you Squid Game and Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer and Parasite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I feel like California would be a good place to consolidate our MLs in America. It has lots of Bernie supporters, Worsening conditions for the poor (price of houses, car centric, huge race disparity, etc) a discontent with the current government. But also geographically strategic, it's huge, the rockies act as a buffer from the rest of the US, far away from Washington, and would be close enough to get aid from China. Economically it would be a huge dent in the American bourgeoisie, and it could be swing to the back of the legs for the eventual demise of the Empire.

Being in a red state, I also agree our country folk have good values just misinformed. I have an idea to make an ML party, but it's ambiguous in its iconography as not to scare off the public. All we need to do is gain their trust with actions, and describe our mission without the "scary" words then we can rope them in to Socialism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The thing is we are too politically and physically divided. Do you think it's possible for a region of the US to break off, instead of the whole country, and if so where?

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