Socialists helped ruin the earth in a mere 200 years and are now subscribing to the Elon Musk death cult delusions of "sustainability and clean energy". I wonder why???

Will Bakunin accuse the Americans of a "war of conquest", which, although it deals with a severe blow to his theory based on "justice and humanity", was nevertheless waged wholly and solely in the interest of civilization? Or is it perhaps unfortunate that splendid California has been taken away from the lazy Mexicans, who could not do anything with it? That the energetic Yankees by rapid exploitation of the California gold mines will increase the means of circulation, in a few years will concentrate a dense population and extensive trade at the most suitable places on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, create large cities, open up communications by steamship, construct a railway from New York to San Francisco, for the first time really open the Pacific Ocean to civilization, and for the third time in history give the world trade a new direction? The "independence" of a few Spanish Californians and Texans may suffer because of it, in someplaces "justice" and other moral principles may be violated; but what does that matter to such facts of world-historic significance?

When middle class failsons like Will Menaker talk about "socialism or barbarism", this is what they mean. They literally identity more with the Roman slave oligarch empire instead of the indigenous "barbarians" who were subject to their "civilization"

  • FailureToLaunch [she/her]
    ·
    4 years ago

    America is the Roman slave oligarch empire. We're raised to believe that workers making $1000 phones for $1 a day is fair and just and normal, so long as its not our workers. That the "underdevelopment" of the majority of the world is some incidental happenstance that is unfortunate but, hey, what can you do? Ignoring the enormous efforts that nations of the imperial core go to to maintain and exploit that underdevelopment.

    As for Engels, yeah, he was a super-rich failson, and had some poor takes (Slavs delenda est, being one of them), particularly early on in his career. Not sure what you're suggesting beyond that, however.