And that's fair - but at that point we would want to argue what constitutes a success - for example, the way I see it, the biggest impediment to socialism is the US, not the existence of a state or a vanguard party. Therefore, anything that impedes the US, or holds its attention away from other nations attempting to shift left, deserves critical support, and anything that cannot do so cannot be called a success
Which is why it once had a stranglehold on South America in the past but now can't even coup Bolivia or Venezuela properly? When I say taking away its attention, I don't mean like tapping America on the shoulder and having some revolution in the global south comically tiptoe in the other direction. I mean that America has only a limited amount of resources (even if it feels infinite) and most of those resources (especially those talented at manufacturing consent) are tied up in the Middle East and in Asia, which has caused the stranglehold on South America and Africa to loosen up a little.
America is a disgustingly powerful nation, no doubt. But to say that it is so powerful that any action taken against it is worthless is nothing but pointless doomerism.
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And that's fair - but at that point we would want to argue what constitutes a success - for example, the way I see it, the biggest impediment to socialism is the US, not the existence of a state or a vanguard party. Therefore, anything that impedes the US, or holds its attention away from other nations attempting to shift left, deserves critical support, and anything that cannot do so cannot be called a success
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Which is why it once had a stranglehold on South America in the past but now can't even coup Bolivia or Venezuela properly? When I say taking away its attention, I don't mean like tapping America on the shoulder and having some revolution in the global south comically tiptoe in the other direction. I mean that America has only a limited amount of resources (even if it feels infinite) and most of those resources (especially those talented at manufacturing consent) are tied up in the Middle East and in Asia, which has caused the stranglehold on South America and Africa to loosen up a little.
America is a disgustingly powerful nation, no doubt. But to say that it is so powerful that any action taken against it is worthless is nothing but pointless doomerism.
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I guess when something loosens up a little its just irrevocably gone now and forever