This and war in Ukraine have made me realize how exactly the holocaust happened. When I was little I was always so confused as to how something so horrible could’ve happened, but history is repeating itself and it’s not so surprising anymore.
What I am still shocked about is how so many people, seemingly good people, become blood thirsty so goddamn fast but it does prove how the holocaust came to be, and the fact that nobody can see how it’s happening again is truly astonishing.
The issue is, they're not honest about who they are. Libs genuinely think they're the good guys, saviour of the "uncivilized" and the shit. Anarcho-Bidenists root for NATO, while people in pursuit of tangible socialism get demonized, villified and spewn misinformation about, apart from potentially having the gov watching you and willing to remove you from the society, if they deem you a threat. I think a way forward will be a multipolar world and socialists will have to move to socialist nations to strenghten them rather than funding fascism by paying taxes under fascist governments. To me it's blatantly clear socialists are a tiny minority outside of socialist nations. You won't save your nation. Mind you, I'm hyper biased because I'm a life-long immigrant with ancestry of immigrants, so I'm as non-nationalistic as it goes.
I disagree, I’m not against people moving to AES and most of Europe is a lost cause, but I think we have a shot in winning (indigenous/new Afrikan) socialist territory in the land occupied by the US once the empire falls. I don’t see what good going to AES does, they’re fine without us. As socialists our duty is to fight for socialism in our own country. Of course, if you’re in danger I respect leaving. But how do you expect the world to become socialist if people in non-socialist states don’t fight?
I don't have any "my own country" so I assume that's a main point of conflict of view, therefore will not continue this line.
I no longer expect the world to become socialist, I hope for the world to become stably multipolar. I don't think seeking absolutism has any benefit. I'd rather strenghten actual socialist countries rather than continue funding hopeless fascist states by my work and paid taxes.
Of course, I cannot speak for any African country. My experience is completely EU+UK centric, pardon me. If you live in a country with a realistic hope for socialism, my perspective (to me) obviously doesn't apply. But EU and UK are fucked, from my personal experience, and based on what people from US, Canada and Australia are saying, those are beyond saving as well.
Communism can only be global and it will eventually. Obviously not in my lifetime, but I expect to see a lot of socialist revolutions and progress. Australia, US, and Klanada are largely fucked, but they will be in chaos after the fall of the empire is made obvious to even the apolitical. I think there’s a prospect of a decent bit of landback in North America considering the size of the oppressed nations and increasing radicalization of the youth. Some parts will probably still be fascist strongholds, but all hope is not lost.
Unless most of the world is socialist we have no hope of combating climate change and other environmental crises. If there’s no hope then we are accepting the [near] extinction of humanity, and why live with that. Things are not settled in the future. We must remember to have “pessimism of the mind, optimism of the will” (Gramci), and that “pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy” (immortal technique).
Precisely.
Same, I am an immigrant from a sort of nomadic family granted I came here (the US) at an early age but I just see this nation and other western ones doubling down on imperialism as that's the only way their economy functions. I.e. Subjugating someone, paying one family that owns a coffee plantation 5 cents a kilogram for coffee produced by slave labor and selling it for 20 bucks here. That's how they extract value. It's not by making anything.
They don't mind seeing swastikas if their proxies have them, they don't mind islamists if they are their proxies. They will never side with the oppressed.
Furthermore, they actively enjoy the fruits of creating new oppressed groups and continuing the oppression of the existing ones, but they like to call them the "Nordic model".
Yep, even the "leftist" squad (AOC, Bernie, etc) just wants to cheer on imperialism in exchange for healthcare and they forgot to even get that in the end. What a joke.