i wish no harm to american ruling class, my enemy is the american people

op admits it was a joke originally, but says after witnessing the contempt of the american people for gaza, is sad to say his joke was correct (unless i'm misreading this)

the user posting_forever writes "yeah well welcome to what happens when your country bombs and threatens half of the earth. feels pretty shitty, huh?"

barbarism critic continues their thread "If you have posted this as a joke that’s one thing, but there’s wayyyy too much of this sentiment expressed sincerely on here and as a signifier of being the “most radical”. It is not! It is poorly disguised misanthropy and nihilism!"

one person say that barbarism critic is "the brianna wu of 2025. Remember kids I called it"

i guess there is some very real perceived material interests of americans to continue the genocide in palestine, like the christian zionists, or the liberals who want to continue the american dominance via global hegemony, and the labor aristocrats in america who want the treats.

i was listening to rev left radio "The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism" with Torkil Lauesen and, probably gonna butcher it - but my understanding is that as we enter a multipolar world, the americans will not be able to blatantly exploit the over-exploited nations (global south) leading to increasingly deteriorating conditions in the imperial core, which will set the grounds very clearly between socialism and barbarism?

and we are to organize and help alleviate the woes of the people which also serve as a way of building relations that lead to building power via organizations.

(iirc the bolsheviks has above ground orgs and underground orgs for the law breaking stuff)

eh i dunno just over analyzing what do you peeps think.

  • CrawlMarks [he/him]
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    8 hours ago

    The ruling class has no power the American people don't give them. They aren't kings or warlords. If the president wanted to take a cookie from me he could not do it. No small part of the American people take it for him though.

    • gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]
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      4 hours ago

      The valorization of capital creates capital, and capital creates the power of the American ruling class, not the will of the people. Because capital valorizes itself and creates institutions of exploitation of the proletarian, the working class can only combat the growing power of the ruling class by stopping the valorisation of capital. You are somewhat correct that the ruling class' power stems from the American people only in the sense that the assets to maintain empire and power require the labor of the working class.