"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.

    • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, he seems to think that % of the economy nationalized = % of the country socialist. Real committed to completely ignoring the concept of imperialism.

      Now that Bernie's officially irrelevant I feel like we need to have a reckoning with a lot of these radlibs.

    • Invidiarum [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I think this is the real take to be dunked. Yes, NJR posted cringe, whatever. But this example of imperialist mindset had to be constructed in a lab. Like on the one hand you have a country that was colonized, had a dictatorship like 20 years ago and where the empire orchestrated a fascist coup last year, where a indigenous socialist movement fights for their rights and a better future. And of course, there will always be critics who think progress is not made fast enough.

      On the other hand you have a nordic european oil rich country with a century long socdem tradition. Yes, they have a great standart of living, but let's be real, you would have to try to fuck this up.

      Like what does Matt thinks beaing a socialist means? Median standard of living? see above lmao

      %of unionmembers? yeah good comparing a country where thats just the default to one where faacists try to murder you for it