Funnily enough, the exact same argument can be applied to the progressives who often rally behind LGBT and minority rights to also distract from doing anything meaningful to fix the economic issues.
This essentially results in an endless back and forth between progressives and right-wingers, where the ball is the minorities.
Yes, that's implicit - you build something in order to use/live in it. The end I was talking about was referring to the end of the gradual transformation from capitalism to communism, it's not an instant process.
It is, pretty much every communist including ML's here fully accept and support the notion that communism at the end is going to be stateless, as the state itself would become unnecessary. The differences come from the means which this end would be achieved.
If we're talking about the big, rich EU counties, then yes. But for poorer ones, EU has genuinely fucked some of them over via imposing austerity and offloading debts onto the working classes of those nations, often via strong arming.
Greece is an explosive example of this, being fucked over by their incompetent government, sure, but also by Troika who literally strong armed them into taking bailouts fully knowing they wouldn't be able to pay them thanks to extreme austerity measures, leading into an even deeper crisis. When Greeks elected anti-austerity parties who resisted, Troika cut off Greek banks from emergency funding, leading them into a collapse and offered an even more predatory deal afterwards. Even when looking at the more successful crises (Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Cyprus), it's debatable whether or not Troika did more bad than good with their imposed austerity.
Wall of text, blah blah - EU is still overall good, don't get me wrong, but it's idiotic to say that they're free from criticism and anyone who does so is just deep in the propaganda.
Depends on context - if it's a yes/no question or something that can be replied to with a simple "great" or "okay", thumbs up serves as a "yes" or as a gesture that the person has read the message and doesn't have any problems with it.
It might be considered rude though for more complex discussions, where you need to respond in sentences
Not exactly accurate - the student protests are aligned with the opposition to Vucic, but the opposition is so incompetent, rather than taking the leadership role or supporting the protests directly, they're mostly sitting at the side lines and cheering.
This because once it gets political, government accuses them to be agents/sponsored/influenced.
Already happened, but the government says so much shit that nobody really cares.
Realistically, it's an impossibility. This view is mostly propagated via liberal news sources, having the main battle be conservatism vs progressivism or left vs right (as opposed to class struggle, the poor vs rich, working class vs capitalists), and since the democrats are more progressive than republicans, they're the "good guys" who should be supported.
For it to be destroyed, we'd have to catch up to their level of influence and reach or even surpass it, to show people that they're a party of capitalists who sometimes are progressive, and not an actual ally of the working or middle classes but only pretending to be one. Maybe going one step further too and influencing progressive movements democrats support to pay attention to economic aspects too, given how their root causes aren't purely social?
But again, it's impossible for us workers to have such reach, given how well funded media is.
Remember: Voting does matter! If everyone votes harder and do activism things will change and fascism will be defeated and all supporters of Trump will suddenly go away.
It goes against their interests to promote class consciousness, same applies to any electoral party (even those considering themselves on the left), not just the dems or liberal parties of Europe. Class consciousness develops outside the electoral system.
Imma be real as an European, we kinda have the same problem here even with better voting systems. You either vote for "nothing ever happens" parties or literal Russia funded reactionary nazis.
Honestly, I don't even think this kind of sentiment/outcome is necessarily Trump's fault, but rather the outcome of US overall goal for Ukraine - in another article I've seen Joe Biden acting disappointed towards Zelensky for not being "grateful", but privately.
It seems they REALLY wanted those mineral rights and then a ceasefire so they could extract them and hold heavy political influence over the country, much like how foreign oil companies backed by the US hold heavy influence in democracy/austerity in the global south.
Funnily enough, the exact same argument can be applied to the progressives who often rally behind LGBT and minority rights to also distract from doing anything meaningful to fix the economic issues.
This essentially results in an endless back and forth between progressives and right-wingers, where the ball is the minorities.