>>2219330I despise you Social Democrats.
The Dems would have done the exact same. No, saying "oooh I'm gonna voooote!" wouldn't change the outcome at all. Everything would be materially identical, in Palestine, in the economy, to a greater degree.
Nobody on the "left" is required to vote for your genocidal neoliberal party, in fact if they did I'd seriously doubt if they're leftist at all.
The fact that it was Trump who did this is even better.
Thank you Trump, the evil fascist psychopath, who increases the hatred for the capital class via his demonic actions!
What he and Musk and others do raises class based opposition to the system, increases awareness of how the state serves capital, it increases the hostility towards the Fascist regime.
The more repressive and evil Trump is, the more likely Amerifats are to actually get up and organise and eventually foment revolutionary action. If only it could happen sooner, and with less harm in the process of reaching that endpoint!
Furthermore there seems to be a secondary arguement in this thread about "state capitalism" and whether China or other such nations are socialist.
Please read Bordiga and also the Communization Theory works (I recommend Endnotes and early Dauvé) that elaborate on this.
There has never been a socialist society. None of your Marxist-Leninist states has ever, to this day, even made the very first most step towards establishing Socialism, by replacing a capitalist labour and economic model with a socialist one.
They only ever produce state capitalism with a degree of welfare.
This is because you all still maintain wage labour, the commodity form, and markets, and so on. How can you call yourself socialist while maintaining the core of capitalism?
Socialism requires the replacement of the capitalist economic systems with a new mode of economics. You need to destroy the market system, destroy money, perhaps not instantaneously, but you need to undertake this transition at the start of the socialist project, not at the end.
No ML state has ever even considered abolishing the capitalism economic system and creating a new socialist model for labour and exchange of services and goods.
The day Marxist-Leninists stop being childish and realise none of their projects will work until they immediately adopt socialist economies, rather than pushing such concepts off into the far distant future, with 1000 hypothetical steps of state capitalism to pass through before they are willing to contemplate such policies, the sooner they can rectify their mistakes.