When the fuck did I say they were worse than the evil empire? It’s definitely a better place to live for most people right now, but that’s mostly incidental. Just like whenever the US or USSR were better in one context or another, empires can support themselves in good and bad ways. Fascist states are typically all bad, where liberal and Marxist spouting empires tend to have both genuinely redeeming qualities and broken ideals to their name.
There are no good empires, and the second you buy into one being fundamentally different you’ve eaten the propaganda. Many Marxists forget how imperialism is an evil that far predates capitalism, an evil necessary for allowing capitalism in the first place. Thinking that evil will meaningfully destroy capitalism is the greatest con imperialism ever pulled. Even the empires that actually rejected capitalism in the 20th century were big fans of genocide, violent repression, and cults of personality. Now those empires are all fascist or neoliberal.
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When the fuck did I say they were worse than the evil empire? It’s definitely a better place to live for most people right now, but that’s mostly incidental. Just like whenever the US or USSR were better in one context or another, empires can support themselves in good and bad ways. Fascist states are typically all bad, where liberal and Marxist spouting empires tend to have both genuinely redeeming qualities and broken ideals to their name.
There are no good empires, and the second you buy into one being fundamentally different you’ve eaten the propaganda. Many Marxists forget how imperialism is an evil that far predates capitalism, an evil necessary for allowing capitalism in the first place. Thinking that evil will meaningfully destroy capitalism is the greatest con imperialism ever pulled. Even the empires that actually rejected capitalism in the 20th century were big fans of genocide, violent repression, and cults of personality. Now those empires are all fascist or neoliberal.