All the time I hear about "the CIA will coup this", "America supported that", "These people opposed US Imperialism". A topic could have absolutely nothing to do with america and involve a place on the exact opposite part of the earth and Americans will find a way to make it about America. For example, people talk about Russian politics and Putin yet seem to support Putin wholeheartedly because his Russia "opposes american imperialism". This framing of the conversation seemingly ignoring how Russian people feel about his reign, how the EU has been having to drag america into the latest sanctions against Russia, and how for the last 4 years America had an ostensibly Pro-Russian president. I swear American Leftists don't care at all about Capitalism or Communism and just want to oppose the United States. Most of the world and people don't care about American influence, let alone to such an obsessive degree.

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I'm not saying the people from murica will never be communists in heart, I say "the US state" (ie US oligarchs) is the major threat to humanity ever, and of course to communism. Are oligarchs from, say, Perú any better? Of course not, but they haven't the biggest fucking army ever at their disposition.

    For Russia to become a stable communist country they had to kill or gulag a lot of rich people, and it's hard to do it when they have several layers of armed forces with all the money in the world protecting them/their interests

    • entrancefee [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      the army switched sides in Russia and I can't see how you'll have a revolution in america without them doing the same