https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/03/29/palestine-action-permanently-shut-down-tamworth-elbit/

https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-866862

Chile just elected the son of a ratline Nazi. Ecuador is run by a US puppet druglord. Take a look at a map of US military and CIA bases in Colombia and take a wild guess at how it produces so much cocaine. The anti-communist massacres, coups and purges of Op Condor never really ended, which brings us to the present moment with Venezuela. It’s very hard to build any socialist momentum when the Fourth Reich keep kicking over your sandcastles.

Its just…the people? I mean I get it. I deal with it every week. I see it with my own eyes.

So there’s no real benefit to pretending or writing apologia for them, right? This is not a path of idealism, so lets let go of that before it gets in the way.

because it’s all the same structure. It’s all the same problems we’ve been dealing with for hundreds of years. It’s not really all that different.

Can you simplify / clarify this? I feel like there a multiple interpretations and I don’t like relying on my own assumptions.

And then the other part is just acting like we don’t have problems here. Like ICE is literally abducting people off the street […] over half the country lives below the poverty line.

I really don’t think there’s anyone here who isn’t acutely aware of there late-stage capitalist rot the empire has been experiencing. From worsening to material conditions to state violence, I think you’ll find plenty of people here that may as well be experts in the matter, as much as such a thing exists.

not everyone is a TikTok girly living in a New York apartment drinking Starbucks every day.

Is that what you think the tankie critique of america is?

they’re a genuine marxist org. I want to try, that’s all

Hatred of the US empire really isn’t incompatible with that. I don’t see why, as a marxist, you wouldn’t share the perspective the rest of the world has about where you probably had no choice in being born. The rest of the world hates and fears the violent depravity of your country for pretty obvious reasons. You’re not obligated to try to soften that image for the sake of optimism, but you will re-enforce your reputation as a specific liberal stereotype if you do.

All my comrades say Death To Amerikkka. If you can’t honestly look at what the US is, what it does, and how its people think, and say the same thing, then I’m not going to take you seriously at all.

If there’s anything legit communists living the imperial core should agree on, it’s how brainwormed, apathetic and generally dogshit the supposed “left” there is. Half the country is openly fascist and the rest think liberalism is the opposite of fascism.

You can’t say they don’t know their audience