The lockstep calls for a fucking war with Russia across the political spectrum, including by probably 99% of the US left, has convinced me that change for the better is impossible in this country and will be for the forseeable future. People still got World Cop mindset and refuse to let it go. Memories like fucking goldfish, like the last 70 years of US interventionism just don't count or some shit. This country needs to be humbled.

Made a whole damn account just to vent because it seems like this is the only place to do it without people saying you lick Putin's boots.

  • a_fanonist_hexagon [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The class of those who own nothing but do not labor either is incapable of overthrowing the exploiters. Only the proletarian class, which maintains the whole of society, has the power to bring about a successful social revolution. And now we see that, as the result of a far-reaching colonial policy, the European proletariat has partly reached a situation where it is not its work that maintains the whole of society but that of the people of the colonies who are practically enslaved. The British bourgeoisie, for example, derives more profit from the many milllions of the population of India and other colonies than from the British workers. **In certain countries these circumstances create the material and economic basis for infecting the proletariat of one country or another with colonial chauvinism. ** (emphasis mine)

    Lenin

    https://readsettlers.org/ch5.html

    • BatCountryMusicFan [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I've already read Settlers and know that capital-R Revolution will come from the global south first. I'm just venting my frustration over American myopia, even among its "left."