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  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    The vast majority of the American left is anti-war and anti-imperialist. However, they're just as vulnerable to the propaganda saturation of mass media as anyone.

    You're contradicting yourself there, if the American left is vulnerable to the propaganda saturation of mass media then they aren't anti-war or anti-imperialist, as we've all seen in the last year and a half, the American "left" is fully comfortable with war and western military expansion as long as it's coached in acceptable terms by the media

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      if the American left is vulnerable to the propaganda saturation of mass media then they aren't anti-war or anti-imperialist

      Pitching the Ukraine war as anti-imperialist and the coups in West Africa as pro-war help confuse and dilute the response our meager leftist organizations can manage.

      The morase of propaganda serves to divorce principle from action, as people with similar motives respond differently based on their sources of information.

      the American "left" is fully comfortable with war and western military expansion

      Shy of simply not joining the military, there isn't a lot Leftists can do to directly combat military expansionism.

      How would this site even treat a more radical approach? Would they know if a local base was being picketed by anti-war protesters? Would they even support it, or would they simply fed-jacket the protesters and whine about liberalism not going far enough?