Atheism is the opiate of the insufferable.
That is all.
Oh, it was a good tactic for them, all right… it drove a wedge between the left and what has traditionally been one of the left’s most effective elements since WW1 - military vets.
But hey… you armchair revolutionaries have everything in hand, right? What could possibly go wrong?
Yes it is, you useless edgelord.
The most extensive and comprehensive study of this phenomenon, The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam, written by sociology professor and Vietnam veteran Jerry Lembcke, situates the origins in “Nixon’s haranguing of war protesters for their disloyalty to the troops.”[1]: p.8 Lembcke shows how the Bush administration and American media used support for the soldiers as a primary motivator to rally the country to support the Gulf War in 1990–91. A prominent part of this was the yellow ribbon campaigns and the image of the “spat-upon Vietnam veteran”, with newspapers like the New York Times quoting a soldier saying “if I go back home like the Vietnam vets did and somebody spits on me, I swear to God I’ll kill them.”[12] According to Lembcke, "it was the image of the spat-upon Vietnam veteran that figured most prominently in the rhetoric of those supporting the Gulf War.[1]: p.20
YOU are peddling right-wing propaganda here.
Exactly what kind of “leftist chad” bases his actions on right-wing propaganda, numbnuts?
You do understand that this trope of “hippies spitting on veterans” was invented by right-wingers in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, right?
you can’t just discard some conditions because they differ
I am not discarding anything. There simply was no feudalist model of resource extraction analogous to the one that has been driving the mining industry in the capitalist era. The well-paid shift boss in a mine in Australia and the poorly-paid rock-drill-operator in South Africa is working under the same capitalist mode of production.
This was not the case under feudalism.
So again… you’re comparing apples to oranges.
Some workers have it good, with good compensation, perks
Only in places where labour organising have managed to win concessions in spite of the capitalist mode of production - a capitalist mode of production that is reproduced globally to this very day. If it wasn’t for the need to stabilise the imperial core, coal miners in Germany would be treated no differently than cobalt miners in the DRC. There is nothing comparable to that in the pre-capitalist world - not even the brutal exploitation of the Americas by the Spanish was reproduced globally.
You are trying to compare apples with oranges.
Do you think mining workers had it better under feodalism?
In the pre-capitalist world mining practices were all over the place… it wasn’t just chain-gangs and overseers. And the conditions for it isn’t fundamentally any shittier than working a farm or a factory - I know because I can literally walk down the street and ask a zama-zama (an artisinal - “illegal”, according to our bootlicking media - miner) and ask him who and what it is that actually makes their work conditions shitty and dangerous.
We all know what happens to miners under the capitalist mode of production, however - it’s literally why some of the most vicious crackdowns on organised labour in history involved the mining industry.
The unmitigated disaster part existed under feudalism also.
Perhaps, but I have to wonder how many feudal peasants would willingly exchange their existence for the precariat one we exist under.
Capitalism is slowly turning back into feudalism
If that is true, then it must mean that capitalism never replaced feudalism, but was instead built on top of feudalism - which is not that difficult to believe if you live in a 3rd-world extraction zone (like I do).
I mean, just off the top of my head…
And, let’s not forget, those conditions never ended - they were just exported.
It’s still better than feudal system.
According to whom? I wonder what we would see if we were to compare the average amount of labour time feudal peasants had to put in to survive vs. that of the current global proletariat.
I’d agree that capitalism has been better for some - like, for instance, white ex-peasants who now gets to be members of the (so-called) “middle class” or gets to cosplay as pseudo-nobility in colonised spaces- but it has been an unmitigated disaster for lots of others.
Poland, Czechia, Hungary,
Which part of Soviet is so hard to understand? The peoples of those countries were never Soviet citizens.
Again… the majority of Jewish people murdered during WW2 by the Nazis were Soviet citizens who were murdered on Soviet territory captured by the Wehrmacht.
The idea that the Holocaust only happened in death camps like Auschwitz is a myth created by western media - which, for reasons that should be obvious to any leftist, never had much of a problem with the Nazis slaughtering millions of people in Ukraine or on the Russian steppes.
The largest part of the Holocaust looked like Babi Yar - not Auschwitz.
It’s a silly term we use for Marxist-Leninists and their fellow travellers because we never bothered to really come up with a less silly term for that part of the left that holds that brutally repressing the working class into automaton-like obedience will (somehow) result in communism descending from the heavens like the Second Coming… it’s an oversight on our part, I’m afraid.
Unfortunately, liberals have finally learnt of the term… so now they call everybody that isn’t a liberal or a fascist “tankie,” too.
Ironically enough, the term tankie was first coined by Marxist-Leninists themselves.
The majority of Jewish people slaughtered during WW2 by the Nazis (and their myriad European helper-elves) were Soviet citizens murdered on captured Soviet territory.
I’ve never been banned for (supposedly) being a fascist… but I’ve been banned plenty of times by shitlibs for (supposedly) being a tankie.
Dream on, tankie - the failure of your excuse for an ideology is total.
Is it run by shitlibs?
Lemmy has a liberal problem.
Not around the opinion of people they won’t.
If that was important to them they wouldn’t lie to us about everything.
Is this the person that insta-banned everybody that criticised “vOtE blUe nO maTtEr wOo” on every instance they modded during the US election cycle?
I’m not American, pretend-leftist.
Did you miss the part about the Gulf War, peddler of right-wing tropes?
You wouldn’t know what an anti-imperialist is if one were to bite you on your spoilt and privileged behind, edgelord.
Go show me an anti-imperialist movement anywhere in the colonised world that didn’t go out of their way to welcome war veterans over to their side - the Makhnovists did it, the CNT-FAI did it, the Yugoslav Partisans did it, the NLF (Viet Cong) did it.
I guess you must be more of an expert in this stuff than they were, huh?