I wonder if most American "leftists" (democratic socialists or otherwise) deep down are just educated liberals who are really angry about the US not having the welfare state and social protections other countries (particularly those in Europe) have, and jump towards leftism as a solution to the worsening inequalities to the world and abroad, thinking it'll be the best way to forcefully express their anger and enact the change (this probably also applies to non-American lefties to a lesser extent but let's focus on burgers). The "educated lib" part also explains why they tend to lash out and be super arrogant and scoldy towards other Americans who aren't leftie, and seem to just really hate working-class Americans who have conservative beliefs - something I see a lot of educated libs do in the US. Maybe I'm projecting, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of leftie millennials and zoomers felt this way. At the same time, though, it does make me think that what these people truly want is to "flee" or move to a developed nation with a social democractic welfare state (or really just universal healthcare at the bare minimum) like Canada (lol) or somewhere in Europe and live comfortably, and then drop their leftist beliefs to become a center-left/centrist/center-right/center-whatever European. Like, I don't have any problem with wanting to move to another country - it's always interesting to live abroad - but if your desire is to escape to Europe so you can be comfortable there and just do nothing else while sneering at Americans for being morons, I wonder how you'd react to the growing power of the far-right in Europe. As of writing we already have a fascist in Giorgia Meloni governing as PM in Italy, and AfD is the second largest party in the Bundestag and are the largest opposition party - it's not a good trend. Are they going to just sit around doing nothing but posture like libs talking about how bad Europeans (particuarly disillusioned, angry working class Euros) who vote for far-right parties are and how they deserve the suffering that comes to them like they do with Americans and/or retreat to their social safety nets, saying to themselves "at least we're not America" ad nauseam as things get worse and Europe continues to be cruel towards immigrants, or will they actually engage in leftist organizing in their new countries to make things better beyond social democracy, even if it involves participating in demsucc parties?
idk man, as an American myself who loves geography, traveling and learning about other countries sometimes it feels like Americans really do just view other developed countries as "le utopias with universal healthcare" that are glorified safe houses for them to escape to without having to do the long, hard, boring work of organizing to achieve it in the US rather than actually caring about the countries or their culture, or how they got their welfare states in the first place.
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Your post deserves great attention. You are ten thousand percent correct. The ameriKKKan trotskyite filth they call marxists must be questioned. No later than 1917, westoids became firmly anti-Communist and this is centralized most greatest in ameriKKKa. The westoids have rotted from Trotskyism and social democracy. They have no grasp of Communism or leftism at all. This is demonatrated every time fascists like cpusa anon and gaynaziflag posts any of these trotskyites, as well as any time these subjects are defended on this leftist website
This fact is easily demonstrated. Pull an ameriKKKan out of a hat and they are always some kind of political deviant.
Name any ameriKKKan "marxist." They are probably a trotskyite. Richard wolff said NEP was closest Russia was to Communism but Stalin and the Great Collectivization (completed socialist tranaformation) was evil because state authority. In vidrel he is on reactionary podcast calling stalin evil.
Michael parenti-son is a magacom. Parenti himself is particularly devious and his crimes are among most hanious.
>There are things about the DPRK that one might wonder about, including its dynastic leadership system, its highly dictatorial one-party rule, and the chaos that seems implanted in the heart of its 'planned' economy.https://www.commondreams.org/views/2009/06/20/north-korea-sanity-brink>Capitalist restoration in the former communist countries has taken different forms. In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, it involved the overthrow of communist governments. In China, it proceeded within the framework of a communist system — as seems to be happening in Vietnam, and perhaps will eventually happen in North Korea and Cuba. While the Chinese government continues under a nominally communist leadership, the process of private capital penetration goes on more or less unhindered." (p.87, Blackshirts & Reds>All this is not to say that everything Stalin did was of historical necessity. The exigencies of revolutionary survival did not 'make inevitable' the heartless execution of hundreds of Old Bolshevik leaders, the personality cult of a supreme leader who claimed every revolutionary gain as his own achievement, the suppression of party political life through terror, the eventual silencing of debate regarding the pace of industrialization and collectivization, the ideological regulation of all intellectual and cultural life, and the mass deportations of 'suspect' nationalities." (p. 57, Blackshirts & Reds)Michael hudson is a free tibet trotskyite. He works for trotskyism like parents worked for trotsky. He called Communist China poor, so his intention is clear
https://michael-hudson.com/2018/08/life-thought-an-autobiography/>I was born in Minneapolis, which is the only city in the world that was a Trotskyist city. During the 1930s it was a center of Trotskyism and my parents worked with Leon Trotsky in Mexico.>Most Chinese live close to the poverty level or well under it, while a small group of newly brooded capitalists profit hugely in collusion with shady officials. Regional bureaucrats milk the country dry, extorting graft from the populace and looting local treasuries. Land grabbing in cities and countryside by avaricious developers and corrupt officials at the expense of the populace are almost everyday occurrences. Tens of thousands of grassroot protests and disturbances have erupted across the country, usually to be met with unforgiving police force.https://redsails.org/friendly-feudalism/This is only the tip of the iceburg. A more profound analysis of what ameriKKKans call their left is warrented. These american "marxists" have spent their getting rich with sole function of trying in vain to destroy Communism, yet the american "leftists defend them to the death. It is sickening.
>>2503899>will they actually engage in leftist organizing in their new countries to make things better beyond social democracy?anarcho neoliberal rats before fleeing the sinking ship which they destroyed:
>"Tankies are wrong, being a globalist who cheers the CIA destroying every workers dictatorship is true revolutionary. Individualist decentralized liberal politics is superior to collectivism. DOGE are heroes for their epic smashing the state, we must unite to resist Stalinst authoritarianism that oppresses the free market, we need anarchist deregulation of the economy for BlackRock."anarcho neoliberal rats after fleeing the sinking ship which they destroyed:
>"nooo Ukraine becoming a NATO-Nazi Fourth Reich after we smashed the state for individual freedom isn't our fault, we are very confused and ignorant here at Crimethinc, we're just weak individuals who are powerless to do collective struggle, its not our fault we're weak cowards! Its actually tankies fault for being hateful to my trans friends who program drones to follow people. We are brave and heroic for our harm reduction of collaborating with globalists who destroy every workers dictatorship that attempts to organize to resist fascism. Putin is evil, Assad is evil, anti-Zionist tankies are evil and should be drone bombed. Anyone who stands against my PMC Breadtube wannabee-Jeffrey-Epstein friends is the axis of evil" Unique IPs: 29