Beat_da_Rich

Yeah, Victory for the ruling class =/= Victory how it's propagandized to the American people.

Your point about a revolution having to build a socialist society from the soil of the previous one is such an important point that ultras and anticommunists conveniently fail to acknowledge. A revolution doesn't reset society into some neutral starting point. You can't just immediately kill, imprison, or exile everyone who isn't on board with the vision, and to believe so is to also greatly overestimate the capabilities of the revolutionary force with newfound state power.

When people finally have distance from this whole period of history, it's going to be difficult explaining to later generations just how sophisticated the psyops of Zionism and American fascism were. From popular media, to weaponization of the Holocaust, to the right latching onto antisemitic conspiracy theories in order to alienate people from the left, etc.

I agree with you too. Theres nothing wrong with labels inherently, especially as signifiers of an ideological lens. But the danger is forgetting that Marxism-Leninism is, in fact, a lens not a dogma. When the lens is treated like a dogma, then it's proponents can take on a religious or subculture tendency.

Neither of us are describing the users here. I think both of us are describing a specific type of person. People especially in the West like to box themselves into labels as placeholders for their identities.

For example, "attachment styles." The whole point of the attachment model is to help a person become conscious of the ways they let trauma influence their relationships with others. But instead of using that awareness to move towards becoming more secure, they treat being "anxious/avoidant" as an identity unable to be changed.

Yep. We need to always be interrogating our own positions and if they continue to be relevant to our current conditions, which will be different depending on where the struggle is located. People becoming too attached to labels encourages people to treat socialism like a subculture.

My experience as well. I think it might be fairer to day that less and less of Gen Z are adherents to status quo ideology. Most of the young people I meet are either commies, anarchists, socdems, or fascists. Liberal has become the dirty word.

Donald has 0 ideas of his own. He no decision making capability. He parrots whatever he is told

The characteristic of his that is the ruling class's biggest asset is also their Achilles heel.

I personally still think there is utility to referring to this as a war led by "the Epstein class." I know there are communists that roll their eyes at that term, but Epstein really is one of the few factors that has actually damaged Trump's standing with his base I''m not talking about his die-hard cultists, but the other parts of his working class base. The challenge is to define the Epstein class as the capitalists, not just Trump.

On top of that, in my experience, ultraleftists also often become right opportunists when convenient.

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There are still a disturbing amount of people who separate Hitler and the rest of Nazi leadership from the poor German soldiers that were dragged into the war by fascism. Yeah. Because it was totally the politicians raping, murdering, and scorching the Earth on their way through Europe and Africa.

We might actually be the dumbest country in the history of this world.