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or by typing [text](/c/zlibrary@lemmy.ml) like this

Damn can’t believe the guy saving me so much money is able to have some fun with their family. How dare they

Dang didn’t realize that’s what it was referencing

toots.matapacos.dog is a general leftist unity instance including anarchists. Though I’m not sure if they allow NSFW.

Very common amerika L

excessive

How much force would have been appropriate then, do you think?

Also, NATOpedia article lmao

USSR

Thank god the “empire” funded and supported the rebels against the empire lmao

Star Wars was loosely based on it so no wonder you’ll see parallels.

Well, the empire from Star Wars was based on the US empire after all, and the rebels were based on the Viet Cong.

I once thought that the US had made mistakes but generally was trying to do the right thing

Thing is, there is no “trying” to do something on a national scale. What nations do — what they can do — and how they react entirely depends on their mode of production and material conditions. And that mode of production for the US is imperialist capitalism.

But they don’t, so talking about those "what if"s are pointless. China’s current interests — and, broadly speaking, those of capitalist Russia even after the USSR has been overthrown — are mostly in line with the Global South’s against imperial core countries. There’s a reason sentiment like this is common across the developing world.

Many of western countries’ victims, like Cuba, DPRK, Burkina Faso, Palestine, etc., would not be able to function right now, or perhaps even exist, if they did not have China and Russia’s support. Of course, alot of them like Libya aren’t able to function anymore.

No revolution started with the whole citizenry waking up

Obviously not everyone lmao.

What every revolution has had is people informing others about what the issue is (often by pamphlets, news, etc), what needs to be done, and organizing. The vast majority of successful revolutions are only those that had organized revolutionaries.

The One True American^TM

No other country controls the global financial system like the US, and imperial core countries in general, does through its dollar hegemony and global monopolies.

Which is natural, since the entire modern world, its institutions and trade systems, are built on the past few centuries of brutal colonization of the rest of the world by western europe and japan.

finger pointing

Acknowledging reality isn’t “finger pointing”.

Acknowledging that the US has been the leader of the imperial core — the countries that have been colonizing the rest of the world for 500 years now — since WW2 is the realistic, materialist view.

Only difference now is that it’s changed form to mainly the economic subjugation (neocolonialism) of “former” colonies through unequal exchange under capitalism rather than direct military subjugation — though the US still has a major actual settler colony committing a genocide in Palestine right now.

Any country that tries to escape this system (by nationalizing its resources to prevent extraction by unequal exchange, usually by establishing a socialist state) is sanctioned (DPRK, Vietnam in the past, Zimbabwe etc), embargoed (Cuba), overthrown (Chile, Burkina Faso etc), or invaded (Vietnam, Libya, Korea, etc).

• How Capitalism Robs the Developing World
• Why Do Poor Countries Stay Poor?
• Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade by Arghiri Emmanuel
• Imperialism In The 21st Century by Ben Becker

This would be a very different comment section if that was a blue hat lmao

I like how some people are claiming americans are aware of this lol

If most americans were sufficiently aware and organizing against it accordingly (if they’re not organizing, they’re not aware enough) the imperialist gov would already have been toppled.

The hardest part of establishing a socialist state isn’t dealing with material conditions… it’s dealing with the US constantly trying to overthrow it even if you’re on the other side of the planet.

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