How many Americans reading this now were radicalized by personally witnessing the failure of reformism in the 2016 and 2020 democratic primaries?
I for one was born with a fully developed revolutionary class consciousness so uhh do better
I was born directly from the mind of Stalin, like Athena springing from the head of Zeus.
Yes, because they have no grounding in material reality at all. Sudan is only doing worse than Denmark because they have bad ideas. If you can only convince them to have the right ideas, they will become rich.
Libs really do believe that. They think colonialism is dead. They have no clue what neocolonialism is. Imperialism is only when big countries invade smaller countries, or when China gives countries money for hospitals and roads.
They think "poor" countries are 100% that way because their governments are bad and corrupt, aren't "democratic," and/or people are too ignorant to do things the "right way."
They have no clue where the treats come from and they don't care. They dont view themselves citizens of an empire, or even human beings, as much as consumers. That is the only lens they view the world through. No solidarity with anyone. Their life is just them and their treats
Do these people actually think Sudan could be transformed into Denmark overnight if only they did things more smarterer?
Yes, they do. "The poors need education and they'll stop being poor" was a neoliberal staple in the 2000s.
When you hear anybody use the phrase "invest their ideological capital" unironically, it's a vast benefit for your mental health to just replace every single word that person says with constant fart sounds.
Capitalism: Ideological
Marxism: Ideological
This is dialectics
It sounds like they listened through a broken telephone to someone who once held a Bourdieu book in their hand without opening it.
its supporters explicitly use Nazi stylings
citation needed. Pretty sure he's getting mixed up with Canada's parliament?
The only thing I can think of is that the Syrian Social Nationalist Party supports them and they're pretty fashy aesthetically, no idea what their beliefs actually are I'm only talking about their symbols.
I think they may be referring to "From the River to the Sea", often omitting the "Palestine will be free" part for whatever reason, which is often interpreted in bad faith as a call to exterminate all Jews.
Revolutionary leftism is definitely a failure which is why we must keep hammering home this point everywhere constantly.
That's why we need an advanced global network of spies and contract killers to stop it. It's not like they just pop back up whenever we ease the pressure even slightly, no siree
This guy is so insular in his thinking and so out of touch. I think he has gotten a strange form brain poisoning from cultivating his own echo chamber in his comments and subscribers that it is only fellow neoliberals cheering him on as his takes just get more detached from reality.
Like back in 2019/2020 when Bernie was still doing well in the primaries he made a post saying "Obviously Trump supporters and the far-right are worse and more toxic, and I am not just propagating simplistic horseshoe theory. But we have to come to terms with the fact that the far-left is also toxic. Bernie Bros have that reputation for a reason" to which I just replied "So your hot take is that anyone that has meaningfully different opinions than you is toxic?" and he blocked me for that. Since that was the mildest response I could offer and only paid subscribers can respond on substack, I really think he blocks and ignores any criticism of his own beliefs, so he just interacts with other deluded "centrist" neoliberals.
He's a writer who's so bizarre I don't even know who would pay to read his crap. Irony-poisoned online neoliberals? Is that a viable demographic? He can't even manage the veneer of being reasonable that ghouls like the NYT pundits manage, it's just all fantasy all the time.
failed spectacularly, as did follow-up efforts like Hugo Chavez
well yes, the more dignity and health that poor people have, the less power there is for rich white ghouls like him. don't uppity non-whites know who they serve?
Update: Got auto-blocked instantly after posting the above comment.
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decolonization happened
also nice passive voice there, how exactly did decolonization happen (in those few places it did)
Right? This whole thing is a textbook example of so much simplistic bs crammed into a small space that just looking at it gives you an aneurysm.
Exhausting, the socdem success and Sweden stuff also doing some seriously heavy lifting there.
He also said that he doesn't believe the global north is extracting resources from the global south to keep them all. The fact that Neoliberal holds him up as some kind of intellectual really shows how desperate they are for one.
Neoliberals have two kinds of intellectuals:
The cartoonishly evil, understanding how western countries depend on imperialism and keeping half of the world poorer than it. The Kissingers of the world. Unpopular among regular every day libs, but revered in the ruling class and ruling class wannabes like r/neoliberal
The utter fools of the "everything is getting better all the time/everything is already great". They're fools, but it's what they peddle to the average libs. Or try to, at least. Basically everywhere in the west, libs are embracing fascism because the lib nationalism peddled to them ("Liberalism is the best way to advance the nation in a way that everyone has prosperity") is seen as a sham.
MFer be like "When the world needed them most they vanished, and then the colonial subjects attacked!"
I'm not surprised he doesn't even know the difference between democratic socialism and social democracy.
Oh man, I didn't even notice that I'd unconsciously corrected that mistake in the post. This guy certainly seems like the paradigm case of "this sign can't stop me because I can't read" style of political engagement.
Suburbanites. Remember hearing one call critical thinkers, "Critical consumers."
Social and intellectual capital are relatively well known concepts in sociology, but it has nothing to do with the way this person is employing it. It's just intellectual-sounding babbling.
this is about the level i'd expect from a particularly incurious high school student
which is to say, unworthy of being uttered in public, let alone printed on the internet for all to see
I have never seen anyone defend the Khmer Rouge or deny their atrocities. Just conjuring shit from nowhere.
Quite a few people did back in the day, including Noam Chomsky and Samir Amin. Nowdays though that all the facts are available, very few people do.
Might be referring to Noam Chomsky. If I remember correctly, most of his denial was simply saying that we should be careful about taking refugee accounts at face value (which anyone who has seen any DPRK discourse here will know about).
There are a couple of extremely weird fringe communists who do, but it's like finding a shiny togepi.
Imagine defending a society that doesn't feed guests as "pretty damn nice".
Has a US and Ukraine flag, yet pretends to dislike right wing death squads. Most historically educated American.
