The lahrer

The first one sometimes has a physical paywall, though.

Back in my day…

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

The reason why Americans don’t do anything. The United States is the modern English empire.

Bruh, it’s never the scabs who are the real problem.

The constant is imperialism and class. We have technically been without both for most of the time modern homo sapiens have been around.

Yes, and Mom & Pop are also exploiting their own children for unpaid child labor.

This is the logic of fascism. It happened in colonialist empires everywhere.

There are examples in the US, South Africa, and Rhodesia where white workers unions organized to prevent black slave labor from taking their jobs.

This is also where a lot of the anti-Chinese racism came from because Chinese immigrants were replacing higher paying white rail-worker jobs. It was a point of conflict between the American white working class and the American bourgeoisie who would rather employ Chinese worker they could pay inhumanely low wages to (although the reason why they were so exploitable was because of racism).

It’s revisionist to say that this was entirely imposed upon workers from above. White workers were given the easier choice to improve conditions somewhat for themselves without risking much by punching down on colonized workers. In every scenario where this has happened in history, the majority of the racially privileged working class have always sided with colonialism against the colonized working class (it is a statistical law) because it was the safest and easiest way to guarantee some economic security.

True!

None of these people disagreeing with me can even articulate why I might be wrong, because they know it’s true. The (white) American left is only concerned with, at best, building social democracy for American citizens. They will not talk about unequal exchange or the monopoly power of their financial system, they don’t want to think about the idea that they’re a settler colonialist project, they don’t want to think that “veterans” are really child murderers, or that they benefit from being part of the consumerist organ of global capitalism. At best they acknowledge these things in passing, wish something could be done about it, sigh, and then go right back to supporting stuff that only benefits them.

The fact that they are stuck between two fences like this is the reason they don’t do anything, and they just let things slowly get worse.

Nuance between imperialism and anti-imperialism. Room in your head for a little bit of American chauvinism?

How is this not true? How can anyone possibly reconcile supporting the existence of the US government as being compatible with leftism?

The labor aristocracy and the “middle class” exists as a consequence of capitalists paying a portion of workers less than is required for social reproduction (underpricing their labor-power) and then selling these commodities to a group of more well-off workers, pocketing some of the super profits for themselves, but also sacrificing some to reduce the price of their commodities below what would usually be profitable, reducing the cost of consumption for already well-off workers, entrenching them as a middle class whose function is to consume. These people can become, on occasion, so wealthy (for a worker) that they can invest their money and turn it into capital, becoming petite bourgeois. This is the mechanism of increasing wage disparity. It doesn’t even need a conspiracy.

Yes, but the examples in recent history are often instigated. Like salafists wouldn’t have anywhere near the same influence without Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia basically wouldn’t exist without US support.

The Shi’a Sunni sectarianism was helped (at least in Syria) by the US government.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html

They’ve exported unimaginable horror and trauma and then blame the people lashing out against it for being not morally pure.

This system that consumes billions like a biblical winepress for turning labor into capital needs to be stopped. It’s gonna kill us all. I’m on the side of anyone against it.

People who own capital on an international scale vs. People who own a small amount vs. People who own none.

The goal of majority of democratic socialists in America is to redistribute imperial super profits to the American working class (excluding immigrants and other oppressed groups the DSA can conveniently ignore). Their billionaires certainly didn’t get that rich from taking all that money from Americans.

What’s happening in Cuba is tragic.

Vlad Dracula Tsepesh