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A bunch of others are saying how they support Palestine but dislike Hamas or want a two state solution. There’s even a patsoc saying everyone should be allowed to live on whatever land they already are on. Basically “might makes right.”
So much of the 20th century Communist revolts were propelled by anti-colonialism. One could sincerely make the "Communism has never been tried" argument by defining all these resistance movements as simple Soviet flavored nationalism.
At some point, it just becomes a weird neoliberal argument against self-determination. Socialism isn't even a part of it.
It will always be absurd to me how people think socialism can happen in the US without decolonization when decolonization is synonymous with socialism throughout most of it’s history.
Decolonization within the US is definitely a thing that could happen in our future. Prison riots. Climate refugees. Agriculture worker uprisings.
They're all on the frontier.
I've never understood why anyone would say that communism was never tried. Socialism has been tried and built (and its a pretty robust system), but don't you need a hegemony of world socialist powers as a prerequisite to establish communism?
You'd need some kind of big continent spanning union of Soviet states. And when has that ever happened? :P
I more mean that all these countries were emergent from the colonial system and loaded up with historical baggage. They were transitional projects.
In the same way a handful of Dutch joint stock companies paled beside modern mega-corps, the states of Cuba and Vietnam are only beginning an experiment that won't be fully realized for centuries.