They’re scared :lenin-laugh:

Also this is just a list of countries where the US killed indiscriminately to end socialism (not Cambodia)

“ Whereas the “Father of the Constitution”, President James Madison, wrote that it “is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest”; and

Whereas the United States of America was founded on the belief in the sanctity of the individual, to which the collectivistic system of socialism in all of its forms is fundamentally and necessarily opposed: Now, therefore, be it resolved that Congress denounces socialism”

Lemme just cite a slaver on the violation of one class of citizens for the benefit of another

  • HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]
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    They are scared. Just look at online spaces

    ngl had to stop here

    I think there has been positive movement in the US in the past 5 years, but this is a poor example. Motion online is perpetual, directionless, and often detached from real forces in people's lives. The vast majority of people do not take any kind of political commitment (beyond maybe voting) from beliefs they get online. Upticks in unionization, protest movements, and even the most basic party organizing matter vastly more than the tone of discourse online, and the facts are there to be encouraged by those changes. There is more real political activity than in the recent past. That's a better metric than the state of the internet.

    Either way, it should be acknowledged and studied that the direction in the US is nowhere near as encouraging as progressive developments in the global South and the ongoing transition to multipolarity. The left, such as it is, in America (and Europe) should learn from these examples and prepare to take opportunities that will come out of these changes geopolitically