not voting for trump but low key hope biden doesnt win so the material conditions of a failing America will be on full display

  • KiaKaha [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Marxism has a fatal flaw in it somewhere that ONLY renders it appealing to the middle classes of developed countries, rather than the working classes of developed countries

    Good news, friend: it’s also wildly appealing in developing countries.

    So yeah, pretty much every demographic other than the one that Marx predicted. Wild, huh?

    I’m partial to a Gramscian explanation. In the imperial core, the working class haven’t ever won a war of position, ie propaganda, which heavily limits their ability to win wars of manoeuvre.

    • Ayavaron [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      I’m partial to a Gramscian explanation. In the imperial core, the working class haven’t ever won a war of position, ie propaganda, which heavily limits their ability to win wars of manoeuvre.

      Where can one read more on this?

    • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think it's a combination of that and colonial superprofits keeping most workers in the imperial core just a little bit too comfortable for them to risk it all in a revolution.

      That's not to say that the labor aristocracy wouldn't be better off materially under socialism; it's just that the circumstances aren't quite dire enough to motivate a direct revolutionary conflict with the imperialist state.

      This video from Hakim on the subject is really good and offers a tangible response to the problem for parties in the core (i.e., support third world revolutionary movements as a priority):

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lDZaKjfs4E

      But yeah, also propaganda.