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If lula were a real socialist he would have purged the whole right wing of the governement not just put blosonaro in jail. It is nice to have an example of why dem-soc is a dead end but at what cost?
Hundeyin is pretty good. He did a really good breakdown of the events in Benin on Jamarl Thomas
He has a really well established understanding of how neocolonialism works in West Africa especially the manipulation of the media and intellectual space and how Africans have been propagandized into internalized white supremacy.
He talks in another interview about how Africans under french colonialism are told they are french and when someone shows potential for colonialism they are taken to france and given a taste of western life (like a year or two of university or a military program) and told that if they are good frenchmen they might get to live that way. And then they go back and treat their countrymen the way the french treat colonial subjects.
Its not going to change anything. Russia knows that there are natoids on the ground (and they target them.) There was a large group of french soldiers in a hotel strike like last year and nobody cared.
So it isn't going to change the calculus for anyone.
I'd guess this is the Uk doing soundings of the popularity of putting troops on the ground. Likely most people will be angry about the troops being there in the first place.
Every social cause is another thing the bourgeoisie can use to promote identity politics and distract from class politics. If anything they wish there were more divisions and crises to begrudgingly take mild action on in order to convince the working class that their protests are making a difference.
I think a major part of the rise of trump brand fascism in usa is that the ruling class feel they have no more social causes to use as a release valve for the pressure caused by class antagonisms or at least they have opened the valves as much as they are willing to.
Marxism is scientific truth and fears no criticism. If it did, and if it could be overthrown by criticism, it would be worthless. In fact, aren't the idealists criticizing Marxism every day and in every way? And those who harbour bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideas and do not wish to change — aren't they also criticizing Marxism in every way? Marxists should not be afraid of criticism from any quarter. Quite the contrary, they need to temper and develop themselves and win new positions in the teeth of criticism and in the storm and stress of struggle. Fighting against wrong ideas is like being vaccinated — a man develops greater immunity from disease as a result of vaccination.
But how many tries did it take?