Russia invading was really the best thing for hawks. It’s only gonna get harder to argue for anti-imperialism now, even smarter people I know see the USA as the lesser of two evils. It doesn’t help that a lot of the people opposed to the US right now are legit ghouls who there isn’t much nice to say about besides that they oppose to the US. No amount of nuance or intelligent arguing is gonna convince anyone now, the US were the good guys against the big evil Putin.

The US is getting more and more regressive on LGBT issues but on classic American style they’re doing it slowly and regionally enough that it doesn’t seem like a sudden regressive take over, so most LGBT people I know still see the USA as a generally progressive state with some regressive enclaves, unlike the “backwards” nations in the developing world.

The hope pilling about China is seeming more and more like cope to me. Even if they are really building socialism I think they maybe too late. Besides it seems to only be socialism for China, they’re not planning on exporting anything.

Anti-communist propaganda as worked. Failures of past socialist movements along with the almost scientific methods of modern propagandists means really only an aesthetic meme version of the idea is gaining any meaningful popularity.

Frankly I’m just fed up. I don’t think anyone else in the west can be talked into socialism at this point, the propagandists won. People say that we shouldn’t be doomer even if we are doomed, but NGL having hope just seems exhausting and obnoxious right now. It being over seems like the best fate because at least then we don’t have to deal with people telling us how wrong we were.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    There are reasons not to lose hope entirely:

    • China might not be exporting revolution but they are doing their own thing and resisting US dominance, as well as developing their country. This alone is proof that a world outside the US exists.
    • The war in Ukraine is horrible but the fact that it happened at all shows that we're not living in the end of history any longer.
    • In Latin America popular movements have managed to gain power, against the wishes of the US.
    • Cuba and Venezuela still exists, despite being targets of US aggression for decades.

    If history teaches us anything it is that America will destroy anyone who tries to move just a millimeter closer to socialism. The Great Satan is decaying and losing the ability to project power. This opens new possibilities, one of them being the construction of socialism outside of American reach. Many other and more sinister possibilities exists but for the first time in ages, an alternative is possible.

    The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.

    • Antonio Gramsci.
    • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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      3 years ago

      Perhaps you’re right.

      I made a recent post that gave me a little hope, apparently some Communist politicians in Russia are calling out the fact that Putin is opportunisticly using the violence in Donbas to justify invading all of Ukraine. I know the lathe almost never works for positive things but it would put some egg on western Libs face if Russian communists became the leading force in deescalating this conflict.