Does not bode well.

it was from my latin american history course, favourite one I took, professor taught it from a 100% openly Marxist perspective. Final slide he displayed during his last lecture just said

"There can be no socialism without democracy nor democracy without socialism"

Fuckin based prof.

But anyway this "hegemonic cycle" thing scares the shit out of me given where we are right now.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      500,000 dead in the imperial core and no one bars an eye. Get ready for the biggest and bestest meat grinder yet.

      • OgdenTO [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Nuclear war is such a bogeyman that I find it incredible that 1) it's already happened in WW2, 2) it's very likely to happen again.

        I'm trying to imagine what it would be like if nuclear war were actually happening, and I can't.

        • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          I remember a few years ago watching a bunch of doomer post-apocalyptic movies in a row and being stuck in a state of existential despair for a week straight. Nuclear war is a such a frightening concept that my brain just refuses to think of what would actually happen if it did.

          • OgdenTO [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Even if it were happening in Europe and the middle East and Asia, and not in North America, and I didn't die, I don't think I can shine what it would be like for that to actually be happening.

            Like, so, the ultimate worst thing is now here, and it's real. It's happened there, it could happen anywhere.