All people here are doing is trying to give you some geopolitical realism, which you can’t accept because of your own self-admitted racist biases
mazdak
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When Stalin offered to provide the ground force for an invasion of Nazi Germany, if the UK would give air support - pre Molotov-Ribbentrop pact - the reason the UK refused is supposedly because their assessment of Soviet military and industry was that they would be steamrolled by the Germans in such an action. Which to be clear isn’t true, given that the Soviet military was designed for offensive warfare (one of the reasons they didn’t perform very well at the start of Barbarossa) and the Nazi’s military was far weaker at this point, when they were still in the process of rearmament, compared to what it would eventually come to be.
Excuse my ignorance but do these resolutions have any kind of real world consequences at all? Or is it just 100% performative? And if it’s the latter why does the US go out of its way to show itself the villain?
There has always been this kind of divide in the nature of hexbear, the extent to which it is either a safe-space for leftists or a place to try and attract and deprogram liberals
The fact that you can improve your iq by repeating tests and learning how that style of questions work is evidence of what a bullshit assessment of intelligence it is
I think most bourgeois class traitors come to the left of their own accord, they aren’t really convinced by anyone and we don’t need to make any effort to attract them, they are very rare anyway.
In terms of the middle class, their privelege has been a product of the material abundance brought about through Western imperialism, they are all going to be squeezed into the lower socio-economic working class in the near future, as the system continues to cannibalise itself. Really the main aim just has to be establishing class consciousness and organisation among the working class. That way there will be a pre-existing narrative for these downwardly mobile people to integrate with and understand their situation through.
It’s very hard to convince people who are materially wealthy to align with such a radical cause as Marxism. The only real avenue I could see is perhaps through presenting a very socially liberal Marxism (anti-drug war, pro individual freedoms, strongly anti-climate change, internationalist etc.), basically building Western Marxism in line with social/cultural liberal values and concerns even whilst our economic values are solidly Marxist. Basically the opposite of what class reductionists think we should do. That ought to be our strategy on an ethical level anyway, but I think the strategic value of such an approach is often underestimated.