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I’m lost, what would it look like?
12·14 days agoThere’s genuinely a lot of internet users whose entire historical knowledge is sourced by memes and 5-min animated youtube videos. The audacity of some people to fight and argue with you despite their political and historical illiteracy is astounding.
8·16 days agoAnd you just got to look at the 18th and 19th-century philologists who’ve essentially set the pillars of scientific racism, to further prove your point.
11·26 days agoThere’s only a few marginal threads praising her intelligence and pragmatism. Lmao
181·26 days agoAh, unsurprisingly.
Unfortunately when people criticize socialist countries for the lack of “free speech,” even if with good intentions, they are usually parroting the talking points of Western, bourgeois media and only serves as to justify imperialist intervention against them.
These criticisms however derive from an ignorance of the way politics work in such countries whose only perception comes from behind the iron curtain and only through the lens of fascist and capitalist media.
In historically socialist countries, democracy had always been principally practiced on the local and communal stages, where individuals had the most capacity to take decisions regarding their daily lives and the situation of their neighbourhood, locality or commune. I highly recommend reading on this topic:
She deserves it as much as Kissinger and Shimon Peres deserve it.
Communism has always been the ideal. However, we have to take into account that we do not live in a bubble insulated from everyone else. We are facing the real, global and continuous threat of imperialist invasion by the capitalist forces. See Cuba and Venezuela, for instance.
It’s really hard to not be an ultra-militaristic society when the CIA and the enemies of the proletariat are always lurking in the shadows and looking for any miniscule gap to breach socialist countries from within. Regardless, we need to diffuse a proletarian, anti-bourgeois culture among the masses in order to inhibit the possibilities of foreign intervention.
Decades of sanctioning and warmongering by the US and its allies has kept a small country like the DPRK on the defensive, which isn’t ideal if you want a thriving nation, regardless of its ideology.
FYI, Machado is a far-right plant who’s championing the sanctions and US intervention in her country and every other nation that opposes imperialism. Notwithstanding her vocal and active support for far-right parties in Europe and LatAm.
Everything’s so performative with liberals. There’s no introspection regarding what their “protest” seeks to achieve; do they really expect fascists to somehow step down after performing the role of the victim?
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Reeducation is indeed needed. But people won’t easily engage with it as is.
Let’s be honest, most do not engage with rational thought as much as with their emotions and intuition, especially when the hegemonic, mainstream media has tamed our minds with bourgeois propaganda.
Instead, we need incentivize reeducation: feeding an impoverished neighbourhood for free once a week; open a free clinic and provide vaccination; offer cheap after-school courses for their kids, so forth. And work on publicity. The people, especially those who are directly benefiting, will then probably think, “those communists ain’t that bad after all,” and will therefore be more open to learn to see things from a materialist perspective.
And this strategy has worked in the past and is even working with Islamist groups. Why do you think Hamas and Hezbollah have popular support? Because they offer their communities many quality services (healthcare, education, alimentation, etc.) which the bourgeois state would never have given them. And while most of their supporters and sympathisers are not strictly islamists — indeed, not even strictly religious — they nonetheless believe that these groups have the people’s interest in mind.
You’re absolutely right in your observation. I believe there is a stoic attitude of sorts that pervades the logic of the average worker under the western capitalist system. The supposition is that the latter is outside of one’s control, so there is no point in trying to change it; it is rather more useful to change one’s own feelings towards it. Absolutely no compromise: either you accept it as part of “nature”, or you spend the rest of your life suffering (mentally).
USA citizens in particular have been continuously consuming anticommunist propaganda for a century, to the point where it became inconceivable to imagine a system other than the capitalist mode of production. And so, despite being cognizant of its severe injustice, they were led to believe that they can only cope with it. In fact, the sample of comments above clearly demonstrate this: these people are in exactly in the same spot as OOP, yet their ferocious attack against their fellow proletarian serves as their coping mechanism.
Is this reversible? Perhaps it could be, but we are facing a multi-billion propaganda machine that knows no exhaustion.
It’s so frustrating because I’ve always used them, because it makes sense to use them like any other linguistic device!
I’ll do you one better and recommend Dostoevsky’s The Double. Way more sinister and eerie, as it deals with schizophrenia.
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