and then answered with China.
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I think the sign that I've gone off the deep end is when my Marxist (self admitted Marxist but obviously more sympathetic to anarchism!???!) polisci professor referred to the USSR as totalitarian as if the USA isn't even fucking worse
I never realized how batshit insane the USA was when I was like 6 years old, some of the shit that came out after 9/11 was like WTF levels of jingoism
I hate the word "totalitarianism" and the racist Arendt who helped popularize it in service of McCarthyism
[looks around at gig workers and people selling plasma while NSA monitors every electronic communication and nothing is replicated in mass media unless it is individualistic and encourages profit seeking]
gee yeah, it's so weird that the mode of production touches all aspects of one's life and determines your material conditions
I just assume that people who lob around accusations of "authoritarianism" and "totalitarianism" instead of making specific criticisms are liberals and not worth my time.
to liberals it means "any exercise of power that I can't see directly benefitting me"
It's a meaningless word that only serves propaganda purposes.
Ultra lottery - Kautsky or Trotsky?
Edit: not that Kautskyites are ultras lmao.