Comment on Putin too, for some reason

• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  American pseudodemocracy is easier to overthrow than authoritarian state capitalism. Things are pretty awful in America, but a lot of folks underestimate the depths of how awful a system can get. They think their worst day is the worst day that ever happened. They’re sheltered.

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  • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Let’s be clear, accelerationism is a morally bankrupt strategy and never works to the degree its proponents think it will. But it is also undeniable that leftist ideologies have not been this popular in America since the 1920s.

    It’s not entirely due to Trump, but rather the dialectical relationship between the capitalist mode of production and the innate human rejection of oppression.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I agree that popular opinion has gone very far to the left. But the danger of accelerationism is that it always leads to political disenfranchisement in equal or greater measure. Thus, popular opinion becomes decoupled from government action, and government action slides right.

      We are creating a society of radical socialists who can’t do anything to put their ideas into praxis. The levers of power are retreating from our reach as the elections become more rigged, and at the same time, the rich infect us with mind-viruses that psychologically disempower us, and turn our energy to unproductive strategies. We are lefter, but weaker. The end result is still a slide to the right.

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      • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Socialist power has never hinged on bourgeois electoral processes. So yes, the bourgeois is gathering the reins of its power to itself, but as they do that, and the working class awakens more and more to the fact that they are excluded from bourgeois democracy, alternate forms of power will be formed. Hopefully leading to a revolutionary moment that can dismantle bourgeoise democracy and enact socialist democracy.

        I agree that doesn’t seem likely in this moment, but dialectical analysis suggests this is how revolutions happen, by the ruling class hoarding power and wealth too much in the face of growing worker’s demands.

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  • Saarth@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A lot of people and countries have soured on America and it’s imperialist project thanks to trump. And America has less support than ever for its illegal wars these days. So yeah it worked.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wow, things sure are great for Palestinians and Ukrainians ever since Trump was elected!

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      • Saarth@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Things seem to be bad for them regardless of whether Pepsi or Coke run USA.

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  • Jtotheb@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Confusing to read because the main issue at hand with America is the global imperialism not how good or bad life is for the average citizen. Yeah of course the imperialism coming home to roost and the GaS pRiCeS are getting talked about by little Treatlers who just want to be comfortable. But I’m not sure how Trump not getting overthrown backs up this idea that America’s system is easier to overthrow than was Mao’s system

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