ProletarianDictator [none/use name]

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Cake day: December 21st, 2022

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  • These are all people who formed an identity around leftism before learning anything about it. They want to stand up with who they perceive as the “little guy”

    Well-meaning libs have had their conscience hijacked to serve imperialism.

    Russiagate broke their brains and convinced them that fighting Russia is fighting right-wing influence in America. The image portrayed of Iran parallels that of lunatic US evangelicals, so similarly for them. Chinese capitalism resulted in very poor working conditions in special economic zones, so opposing them must also be “left-wing”

    Western media has constructed a world view in which supporting imperialism is the only left-wing option. They’ve been tricked into opposing everything necessary to achieve the idealist outcomes they supposedly desire. This elaborate rouse requires no outright lies, only a media regimen of simple, consistent framing.

    To them, it geopolitics isn’t US & European imperialism vs. these powers & the global south. It is right wing / authoritarian forces vs. left wing / libertarian forces. Big vs. little. Frame everything in these terms and you have a lib indistinguishable from frothing fascists in terms of geopolitics.

    They can denounce “both sides” and posit a Scandinavian alternative because they have no clue how Imperialism and unequal exchange work. They cannot fathom that colonized countries cannot merely adopt social democracy, and it is their fault for not doing so.

    Media can reframe any measures as “authoritarian” and the western left will not bother to contextualize them or do any sort of analysis, lest they become sympathetic with authoritarians.

    The right wing will intuitively and correctly understand these “authoritarian measures” (i.e non-free-market for US finance capital) as left wing, so they will oppose these actions by default. But they also love triggering the libs, so they will tacitly support US adversaries when they do right wing stuff, reinforcing libs perception of them being right-wing and Imperialism as left wing.

    This is why these libs hate “tankies” with so much fury. By siding with the colonized, we indirectly attack their identity as “leftists” and to surmount that cognitive dissonance, they must make serious efforts to empathize with and understand those colonized (and brown) “authoritarians” they see as responsible for the effects of US imperialism.