>>29678Accusing your opponent to be a fascist front without elaborating further is not a good way to make a point.
The real problem with patsocs and the reason why they are ridiculous is that they hold no convictions except class collaboration.
To them, capitalist exploitation is good as long as the good capitalists are in charge. If there is enough nationalist propaganda based on old-school bourgeois family values, telling you to be a good hard working wagie for the glory of the nation, it's all good.
That's why you can see Jackson Hinkle talking positively about Israel because Netanyahu shook hands with Xi and Putin, months before doing a complete 180° and suddenly becoming a fervent pro-Palestinian influencer when shit hits the fan.
That's also how people like Haz arrive at conclusions like "baristas and service workers aren't real workers". It's not a matter of value creation, surplus value extraction, or economics, it's a matter of vibes and their place in society: Starbucks workers and underpaid Hollywood staff go on strike? "Fuck them, they are filthy westoids, they need to get a real job" as if "real jobs" weren't also underpaid. When the "real working class" in the US automotive sector or food deliverers in China go on strike, they don't give a fuck about it because they are too busy blabbering about Dugin and how the Ottoman Empire was socialist.
Nu-/leftypol/ has the same problem, more often than not, it's all a matter of an epic battle between capitalist nation-states and their figureheads on a global scale.
Since AES countries had to engage in realpolitik by necessity and came with ad hoc justifications for it, now we all need to play the game of "if I were a Soviet leader, to who I would give my critical support to?" for every conflict happening between capitalist nation-states competing for resources.
The end result is glorifying class collaboration. For quite a few self-proclaimed "MLs" here, it's not a matter of capturing the state anymore, in order to turn it into a dictatorship of the proletariat, but a matter of which capitalist states we should cheer for and which capitalists states we should badmouth.
The message in the end is the same: while we are waiting for China to press the socialism button in 2050, in the meantime, be a good patriotic wagie and shut the fuck up, the bourgeoisie needs you to build the productive forces and deliver my goddamn meal.
>>29692>The fact is, Russia, China, Cuba, the DPRK, Venezuela, African countries, etc. have support from the people you call "patsocs" because they have a base where socialist thought is not demonized, where a culture of revolutionary thought remains.The CPC put Maoist students who want a return to a planned economy in prison. All strikes in China are wildcat strikes, because the only union in China is controlled by the state, and the state doesn't want workers to go on strike. The 996 workweek phenomenon wouldn't have happened if the CPC enforced labor laws rigorously.
Xi might vaguely allude to Marx in official speeches, but the main reason why you can buy very cheap stuff on AliExpress is because the Chinese working class is heavily exploited by the Chinese bourgeoisie. The world runs on profit, not on good sentiments.
>That's why there's support, and that's why people can ignore Russia being capitalist, because a multipolar world is preferable to a single US dominated hegemon, and provides opportunity for leftist movements to rise and gain strength.This has yet to be proved. So far I only see more wars from nation states who want to have more resources under their control. The people who fight on the battlefield are not the bourgeoisie, but proles with families.
Multipolarity is increasing military spending in every country of the world, and this military eventually needs to be used to an end. I'm not saying the status quo ante bellum was better, but I don't think multipolarity is a silver bullet for worldwide socialism.