Is this the beginning of a clear attitude shift towards China in the imperial core? Obviously westerners are trained to hate China but historically that’s been used to demonize communism and stoke chauvinism.

But there hasn’t been an attempt at manufacture consent for mounted antagonism against China yet. Maybe the imperialists are starting to think Chinese socialism is a threat after all

And I don’t obfuscate that I’m a communist. I’ll tell people that. Maybe not right away, but definitely at some point in the conversation. The reason I do that is because I want to show people that my values aren’t just “big government, no food”

I feel like it all the time honestly. One thing that has helped me at least have productive conversations is to ask people “why do you feel that way about Palestinians” or “why wouldn’t you travel to China?”

Then that opens the door a little bit more. Unfortunately, people get very offended when you approach it from “you’re wrong and here’s why” instead of “why do you feel that way?”

Liberals are so trained to spew out all this “both sides” garbage that they legitimize a genocidal ideology while offering the most half-hearted “moment of silence” type support for the victims of said genocide.

Fascists are always enabled by liberals. Always.

I know it’s a meme, but I really don’t miss it. I was trapped in a mindset of racism, chauvinism, selfishness and just general stupidity.

Does it suck realizing just how fucked up the entire system is? Most definitely. But it sure beats ignorance. And the fact that we have literal actionable steps to bring about change is a cure to the doomerism that so many are succumbing to.

Eventually buying homes here in the USA is going to be a thing of the past. Everyone will merely be a renter. But capitalism isn’t the problem if you ask the majority of Americans. Even the ones who will agree will say “we should be more like Denmark!”

Man where have I seen this movie before?… oh yeah, 17 fucking years ago when the exact same kind of speculative housing market collapsed and led to a massive upward transfer of wealth.

I’m sure this time the bailouts will go to the workers though.

Well written post, comrade. I’ve recently been thinking a lot about this because I’ve lived the life of both an American conservative and American liberal.

Your assessment of Trump’s base is pretty accurate although I do there is a redpill component to it as well that has shepherded many young men to Trump who aren’t white. In the most recent cycle, his boom amongst Latino men was massive.

But again, the redpill community is hyper reactionary and sees female autonomy as a social ill

We also stand for the National Anthem at fucking everything.

So many Americans are hopelessly nihilistic. I’m truly in awe of how many people I know who completely understand that they’re being robbed by the rich and that life under this system fucking sucks but won’t consider the possibility of changing it.

No, no, no! He’s spending that money on Nazifying Grok

It’s fucking gross tbh. I want to grab all my fellow white Americans and shake them out of their fixation over all the ticky tack bullshit that keeps us placated.

Like there are millions of people being stomped on so we have grocery stores full of food that we can barely afford anyway. When in reality we produce more than enough food to feed the entire planet

I didn’t know about the cattle tails but my God, there’s really no fucking reprieve for the Koreans from American aggression.

That makes a lot of sense regarding Cuba, too. It can take a long time for the soil to regenerate naturally without fertilizer

A big reason I think why the AES states struggle to produce food is that they have limited space for food production, especially since DPRK and Cuba have had to develop autarky, leaving even less available land for food production.

I’m not sure about DPRK because frankly, I have no idea where to look for reliable information about that country, but Cuba did shift to urban food production largely through the methods that you’ve outlined in your post and it seems as though it’s been modestly successful

Americans too. We had Hitler Youth camps all across the country. Henry Ford was a pen pal to the Fuhrer. Even when we were involved in WWII, we put Japanese people into our own concentration camps.

Greed is a powerful force. Even now, so many people have no qualms about doing outright destructive things to other people if they make a lot of money doing it. Capitalism encourages all of it too.

The more I read about Poland-Axis relations, the more disturbing it gets. The way the Nazis are portrayed as just some rogue movement acting alone is disgusting. They had many collaborators and bourgeois support.

You see when China does something good, it’s because of capitalism but when they do something bad, it’s communism

I just don’t get how you can read the theory and then disparage China. These ultras and “Maoist” types are guilty of the same sort of idealistic crap that liberals and fascists build their worldviews on in my opinion, even if they are well meaning.

China isn’t perfect, but unlike so many other nations and political movements around the world, they know they aren’t perfect and are always improving.

Marxism-Leninism isn’t snap your fingers and make communism. It’s material analysis done by proletarian dictatorship.