• miz@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    It is so frustrating to argue with libs who make arguments so old that literally Marx himself responded to them. I get the impression that Marxists already won the debate back in the 19th century and the liberal tactic has just been to pretend the debate has never happened, to continue repeating centuries-old arguments over and over again as if they’ve never been responded to, and to discourage anyone from looking into Marxism or reading Marx, Lenin, Mao, etc.

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      4 months ago

      I get the impression that Marxists already won the debate back in the 19th century and the liberal tactic has just been to pretend the debate has never happened

      This was also noticed by Marx when he analysed the trend in contemporary economics, but he meant not himself but generally LTV, so incredibly uncomfortable for capitalists that their pet economists made a step back and started to circle like shit in airhole.

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    4 months ago

    Everyone will not agree.

    Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits. As for those anti-imperialists who don’t participate in this festival of xenophobia — and here I include myself — we have our own elitist consolation: we accept the tragedy of masses of gullible sheeple falling for cunning propaganda because having overcome it flatters our own intelligence. The more we condemn society’s stupidity, the smarter we feel in comparison.

    https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/