They’re scared :lenin-laugh:
Also this is just a list of countries where the US killed indiscriminately to end socialism (not Cambodia)
“ Whereas the “Father of the Constitution”, President James Madison, wrote that it “is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest”; and
Whereas the United States of America was founded on the belief in the sanctity of the individual, to which the collectivistic system of socialism in all of its forms is fundamentally and necessarily opposed: Now, therefore, be it resolved that Congress denounces socialism”
Lemme just cite a slaver on the violation of one class of citizens for the benefit of another
They are scared. Just look at online spaces, actual communism is being talked about a lot. Queer spaces are pushing back against rainbow capitalism. Neurodivergent people are naming capitalism as a problem. People are rejecting grind culture. It's not even close to a unified left yet, or even just enough to slow capitalism, or translating to irl space that much yet, but people are starting to see the game, understand what's happening. Marx's greatest triumph was naming the beast, revealing the system which was established over us. There's been an awakening starting as material conditions worsen, and they are scared.
ngl had to stop here
I think there has been positive movement in the US in the past 5 years, but this is a poor example. Motion online is perpetual, directionless, and often detached from real forces in people's lives. The vast majority of people do not take any kind of political commitment (beyond maybe voting) from beliefs they get online. Upticks in unionization, protest movements, and even the most basic party organizing matter vastly more than the tone of discourse online, and the facts are there to be encouraged by those changes. There is more real political activity than in the recent past. That's a better metric than the state of the internet.
Either way, it should be acknowledged and studied that the direction in the US is nowhere near as encouraging as progressive developments in the global South and the ongoing transition to multipolarity. The left, such as it is, in America (and Europe) should learn from these examples and prepare to take opportunities that will come out of these changes geopolitically
I definitely agree with this.
The presence of communism in discourse right now massively outweighs its representation in organised form though, what they are truly scared of is that communists will find a way to convert the online discourse into an organised form offline.
This however is quite a chasm to bridge, but when we figure out how to bridge it things may move very quickly.
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