/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Marxists present a 19th century outlook of the world, and that is exactly their problem when they try to criticize the US foreign policy today. The US foreign policy is created by 21st century men. What gave the US the edge for decades before the end of the Cold War was not necessarily the better economy or the greater army, but having a solid grip on the moral high ground.
The edge in US foreign policy was not given by Theodor Roosevelt, but by Woodrow Wilson; by FDR, Truman and Eisenhower, not by Johnson or Nixon; by Jimmy Carter, not by Reagan. This edge in moral high ground was the defining soft power in US foreign policy. The 14 points, refusal to threat foreign powers with the nuclear bomb, the consistent pursuit of the dismemberment of colonial empires, the importance given to human rights - these are the notions that differentiated US from USSR.
The USSR, on the other hand, has no high ground - has no soft power. It probably happen somewhere in Afghanistan, when the USSR refused to define the invasion and occupation of almost 1 mil people as genocide, because it did not serve any USSR interest. Marxists are thinking in terms of real politic - a 19th century notion - and lost grasp of the 21st century ideals that actually constituted the driving power behind the US foreign policy. Because if USSR is policing the World only when and where it suits its interest, that sure resembles true hegemony and true imperialism.