03-24-2021, 04:28 PM
(03-22-2021, 04:57 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(03-09-2021, 10:02 PM)Einzige Wrote:(03-09-2021, 09:52 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(03-09-2021, 02:59 PM)Einzige Wrote:(03-09-2021, 01:46 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I am an old anti-war protester going way back, but I am becoming more sympathetic to such involvements, at least without bombing (probably) or troops on the ground by the USA. The great war of our time is not against an alliance of invading fascists or monarchs, but the people rising up for freedom against an alliance of local tyrants all over the world. For example, if the people of Burma ask us for help in overthrowing their Myanmar tyrants, we should answer them and give them what they ask for. I'm afraid local people power alone is usually no match for armies, unless there are strong defections from them to the people. Right now the people everywhere just want to be free, and they aren't getting this.
Yes, of course. You are sympathetic to petit-bourgeois conceptions of freedom.
And social-democratic ones, which you are also not sympathetic to.
Because social democracy is absolutely invariably a backdoor to rhe most rapacious forms of Capital (Scandinavian social democracy for example, which is funded by extremely high regressive taxes s well as domestic businesses that operate in Africa etc.). Social democracy is one of the worst variants of capitalism.
It has been 173 years since Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto. Name one nation where capital has been abolished and your version of Marxism has been implemented and established.
A whole three full generations for an entire social logic to work itself out! You've really got me there.