what a letdown

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    So while stanning those protests is dumb and these farmers are Pettit Bourgeois , these protests in Holland are prob the only the large scale disruptive active resistance by “non rich” people against the “status quo” for “economic reasons” poor people in these countries have seen in a while.

    There were strikes by actual agricultural workers (those picking fruit on the field, not those owning the fields) at the start of the pandemic in places like Germany, but they received almost zero media coverage. Go figure. There's also plenty of successful union activity in the US atm - yet the same nazboloid wreckers who will celebrate the kulak protests in the Netherlands insist that people working at Starbucks or Amazon aren't workers. It's almost as if these red-browns are part of the effort to redirect any outrage at capitalism towards a fascist movement that poses zero threat to capitalism.

    • Praksis [any]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      You know I was going to respond but you worded it very well, I've got nothing to really add. This is a misdirection towards a right-wing movement that won't threaten capitalism. The left-wing in the Netherlands is also largely at fault here for not capitalizing on anything/not even knowing what they want to be.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        The right wing anywhere in the western world could never be as strong as it is without 150 years of anti-communism. The weakness of the left is a problem, but it is in large parts an engineered one.

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