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Things aren’t always that simple, if Allende was alive today he would strongly disagree. The closest example we have of a socialist government coming to and staying in power through non-revolutionary means is maybe Venezuela and that still had a militaristic component to it, Hugo Chavez had the advantage of being a former military officer and had to deal with some close call coups.
I view freedom of speech as not an ideology, but rather as a privilege/luxury for places with favorable conditions and a lack of existential threats. The West liked to flaunt free market and free speech ideals back when they had a massive soft power advantage over the late USSR and emerging world, now that they are losing the economic/soft power game against China they are placing the shoe on the other foot and doing away with those ideals in favor of protectionist and nationalistic measures.
I am going to jump on the Ukraine bandwagon, pre-dissolution it was an absolute industrial powerhouse that was building nuclear supercarriers and had a world leading aerospace industry. Fast forward and it became a country struggling to have a functioning sewage system.
Naturally Marxist Leninists are going to hold at least an ounce of distain for “welfarism” due to the way the bourgeoisie have historically used welfare to placate the masses into accepting a temporary band aid rather then actually seizing power for themselves. That’s not the same thing as opposing welfare in principle the way conservatives and reactionaries do, unless you’re advocating for an extreme degree of welfare that ignores material reality.
Franco was an antiquated relic of the axis who never received the latest software updates.
A theory I have as to why Marxism was able to take off in Asia is their strong reading and book culture, along of course with them getting the short stick of Imperialism.
There is no longer enough pie left to sustain both the US and Europe, the only way for either to survive is to take everything left that remains on the plate.
Don’t worry, surely it’s just to protect children and not to help build data profiles of people and their ideological views which can then be handed to ICE or whatever Gestapo-like organization.
Provide outlets and media platforms, that is the main area where the right dominates over the left and that the left could greatly use the help of a class traitor in.
Peter Thiel is already the de facto ruler of the US, Vance would probably be even more of a puppet.
It’s enough for them just to weaken Iran, fracture it or at the very minimum destroy their oil facilities to deprive China but also other countries in general of another oil trading partner and thereby increasing their subservience to the US. They want to pave the way for Israel’s eventual Manifest Destiny of the middle east and Iran currently stands as the only powerful middle eastern nation that isn’t a collaborator regime.
In the absolute most simple explanation possible I can give:
Non-fiat= Currency that can be directly translated to a certain universally valuable good at anytime (i.e. gold, silver), either through reserves or the money itself being made of said material (coins). The concrete measure of wealth helps gives investors and whoever else confidence that your government won’t go bankrupt.
Fiat= Currency that’s worth something because the government says it is. Look at us, we are big, our military is strong, don’t you trust we will always be powerful, wealthy and stable? You better or else we send that military after you if you put our financial solvency into question. Notably used by the Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the US today.
I always assumed it meant someone who advocates for a romantic relationship between two fictional characters, or makes fanfic of it. For example “shipping” Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 with Aerith or shipping him with Tifa.
For better or worse I don’t remember hearing much about anything in school past the US civil war, and I even took an optional class specifically about war lol. Nothing about Korea, nothing about the US colonization of the Philippines, just extremely basic stuff.
What’s missing is that NATO did a hell of a lot more then just impose a no-fly zone, they conducted 7000 bombing sorties and destroyed the Libyan military enough to allow basically anyone to walk in and take over.
I don’t know about anyone else but for me I just go with my experiences with this type of thing. Like for example if someone has a Tyler Durden or Joaquin Phoenix Joker pfp, I feel pretty confident assuming they hold some kind of Alt-right beliefs. Of course, I wouldn’t jump straight into attacking someone over something like that alone, that sounds a bit silly to me.
Yeah, sadly in the majority of low GDP countries, if you give people money to do something, they are going to do it much more often then not, whatever that might be. And the US/Israel have plenty of fiscal money to give. Ideology isn’t what matters for the vast majority of people in the global south, their own personal livelihood is by an overwhelming degree. It’s not an insult, it’s just a material reality. Even China had to fight a very hard battle against corruption during it’s era of poverty and still is to a lesser extent.
While it indeed happened easier then I would of expected, the reasons are not that difficult to surmise. One country is reliant on leftover scraps from the 1980s for it’s military hardware, the other has multi-billion dollar datacenters they can use to strategically dissect the country and figure out precisely what is the exact best things to do at the exact best time. The US historically never struggled with toppling state actors, it’s difficulties where with quelling decentralized resistances. What happens now is the big question.
If you can afford higher education that means you are likely a member of the bourgeoise to begin with. Most societies in history created schemes to gatekeep education from commoners and people deemed risky towards the ruling class. I think rising literacy rates played a big role in socialism’s emergence in the 20th century, up until reactionary and capitalist nations became aware of the “threat” and began gearing themselves specifically towards anti-communism.
First of all the question is a bit of a strawman because socialism and collectivism are not 1 to 1 the same thing. Some level of collectivism is necessary in a socialism system but only to a certain extent, just as a sustainable capitalist system can’t be 100% individualist either . A socialist country CAN be extremely collectivist, but that just depends on the culture of the country in question. Marxism is against systematic exploitation at the industrial scale, it doesn’t say we have to be spending all our time doing nice things for our neighbors 24/7.
As for why a true individualist society would suck, it would eventually end in a huge mass of undereducated people, infrastructure decay and general neglect if we assume an opportunist doesn’t immediately take over and establish a dictatorship. Some things just aren’t going to happen without collectivist coordination.