"I'm also a Marxist-Leninist."

liberalism

Both are socialists. I don't think we do ourselves any favors by saying that one of the prominent left politicians in America, who is despised by the Democratic party elite, is a "fake" socialist. Evo and AOC are both important courageous leftists.

The differences between them aren't even that extreme. Evo Morales isn't a Marxist-Leninist or anything, he governed as a moderate reformer and actually was protested by the left for being disappointing on a number of things and not going far enough.

These people are the opportunists you've been warned about. Stop defending them. They're less than useless.

  • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
    4·
    4 years ago

    The fact that probably 10x as many "leftists" in the west read his horseshit than actually know what Marxism is is what triggers me.

    Evo is anti-imperialist and Bolivia makes their money through domestic production and extraction of their own resources while the US makes its money by exploiting the global south. Even if their nationalization and tax/spend policies were identical, AOC wants a fairer division of imperial plunder while Evo wants a fairer division of the product of of his own people's labor and his own country's resources. That's why Evo is a socialist and AOC isn't.

    • thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
      2·
      4 years ago

      But marxism is bad and marx was wrong, didnt you read the opinion of our favorite anti-communist NJR, why dont you like an actual socialist state like the uk or scandinavia

      • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
        2·
        4 years ago

        That's what social democracy in an Imperialist country is. That's where the US's wealth comes from, we aren't all factory workers and miners anymore. She may or may not have an understanding of this but it's the truth.